GED Testing Program Statistical Report

2009

© July 2010

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L E T T E R F R O M T H E G E D T E S T I N G S E R V I C E E X E C U T I V E D I R E C T O R a N D a C E V I C E P R E S I D E N T . . . . . i v

a C K N O W L E D G M E N T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v

E X E C U T I V E S U M M a R Y . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v i i

I N T R O D U C T I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Jurisdictional Roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

About the Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

About the Current Series GED Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

S E C T I O N I : W H O L a C K S a H I G H S C H O O L C R E D E N T I a L a N D W H O T O O K T H E G E D T E S T ? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Who Lacks a High School Credential? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Who Took the GED Test? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

GED Test Candidate Demographics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Candidates Who Took Spanish- and French-Language Versions and Special Editions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Candidate Performance on the GED Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

S E C T I O N I I : W H O P a S S E D T H E G E D T E S T ? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 9

GED Test Passer Demographics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Passer Performance on the GED Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

S E C T I O N I I I : T R E N D S I N T H E G E D T E S T I N G P R O G R a M . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 9

Testing Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Demographics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Spanish- and French-Language Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

S E C T I O N I V : G E D T E S T I N G P R O G R a M I N F O R M a T I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3

GED Testing Service Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

GED Administrators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

GED Testing Service Advisory Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

ACE Board of Directors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

GED Testing Service Research Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Table of Contents

a P P E N D I C E S

Appendix A: GED Testing Program Policies, by Jurisdiction: 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Appendix B: Percentage of GED Test Candidates, by Age Group and Mean Age: 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Appendix C: Percentage of GED Test Candidates, by Gender: 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Appendix D: Percentage of GED Test Candidates, by Ethnicity: 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Appendix E: Percentage of GED Test Candidates, by Highest Grade Completed and Mode Highest Grade

Completed: 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Appendix F: Percentage of GED Test Candidates, by Years Out of School and Mean Years Out: 2009 . . . . . . . . 62

Appendix G1: Percentage of Candidates Reporting Various Reasons for Taking the GED Test in the

United States: 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Appendix G2: Percentage of Candidates Reporting Various Reasons for Taking the GED Test in Insular Areas and

Inter-Regional Contracts: 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Appendix H: Number of GED Test Candidates Tested, by Language Version: 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Appendix I: Number of GED Test Candidates Tested, by Special Edition of the GED Test: 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Appendix J1: Standard Score Statistics for All GED Test Candidates in Language Arts, Writing; Social Studies;

and Language Arts, Reading Tests: 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Appendix J2: Standard Score Statistics for All GED Test Candidates in Science and Mathematics Tests: 2009 . . . 74

Appendix K: GED Test Candidate Participation, by Number Tested, Percentage Who Completed the GED Test,

and Percentage Who Passed: Changes from 2008 to 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Appendix L: Percentage of GED Test Passers, by Age Group and Mean Age: 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Appendix M: Percentage of GED Test Passers, by Gender: 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Appendix N: Percentage of GED Test Passers, by Ethnicity: 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Appendix O: Percentage of GED Test Passers, by Highest Grade Completed and Mode Highest Grade

Completed: 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Appendix P: Percentage of GED Test Passers, by Years Out of School and Mean Years Out: 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Appendix Q1: Percentage of Passers Reporting Various Reasons for Taking the GED Test in the

United States: 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Appendix Q2: Percentage of Passers Reporting Various Reasons for Taking the GED Test in Insular Areas and

Inter-Regional Contracts: 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Appendix R1: Standard Score Statistics for All GED Test Passers in Language Arts, Writing; Social Studies; and

Language Arts, Reading Tests: 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Appendix R2: Standard Score Statistics for All GED Test Passers in Science Test, Mathematics Test, and

Test Battery: 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Appendix S: GED Test Pass Rates, by Age Group: 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Appendix T: GED Test Pass Rates, by Gender: 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Appendix U: GED Test Pass Rates, by Ethnicity: 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Appendix V: Trends in GED Testing, All Candidates: 1949–2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Appendix W: Statistics on GED Test Candidates and Passers, by Jurisdictional Group: 2002–09 . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Appendix X: Number of GED Credentials Issued, by Series GED Test (1943–2001), and Number of GED Test

Passers, by 2002 Series GED Test (2002–09) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Appendix Y: Formulas for Table Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

L I S T O F T a B L E S a N D F I G U R E S

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Table 1: GED Test Average Standard Score and Estimated National (U .S .) Class Rank of Graduating High School

Seniors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

Table 2: Target Population and GED Test Candidates Who Tested, Completed, and Passed: 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Table 3: Target Population and First-Time GED Test Candidates Who Tested, Completed, and

Passed: 2009 Cohort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

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Figure 1: Percentage of U .S . and Canadian Adults Without a High School Credential, by State or

Province/Territory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Figure 2: Percentage of U .S . Adults in Key Demographic Groups Without a High School Credential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Figure 3: Percentage of U .S . and Canadian Adults Without a High School Credential Who Took the GED Test, by

State or Province/Territory: 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Figure 4: Standard Score Distributions for All GED Test Candidates, by Content Area: 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Figure 5: Percentage of U .S . and Canadian Adults Without a High School Credential Who Passed the

GED Test, by State or Province/Territory: 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

Figure 6: GED Test Passers, by Jurisdictional Group: 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

Figure 7: GED Test Pass Rates, by U .S . State: 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

Figure 8: GED Test Pass Rates, by Canadian Province/Territory: 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

Figure 9: Standard Score Distributions for U .S . GED Test Passers, by Content Area: 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

Figure 10: Standard Score Distributions for Canadian GED Test Passers, by Content Area: 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

Figure 11: Number of Candidates Who Tested, Completed, and Passed the GED Test: 2002–09 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

Figure 12: First-Time and Repeat GED Test Candidates Who Tested, Completed, and Passed: 2002–09 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

Figure 13: Number of Candidates Who Tested With Spanish- and French-Language Versions of GED

Test: 2002–09 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

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t Letter from the GED Testing Service® Executive Director and ACE Vice President

I am pleased to introduce the 2009 GED Testing Program Statistical Report, on behalf of both GED Testing Service and the American Council on Education (ACE). This report is an essential snapshot of the testing program with comprehensive information about the adult learner pipeline and GED Test candidates. We’ve

designed the report with stakeholders in mind—those who need this valuable information to better understand the program and its results and, at times, to help shape policy. I encourage you to make time to explore this latest report and mine the wealth of data and information it contains.

During 2009, the testing program served more than 788,000 adults, of whom approximately 684,000 completed all five tests in the GED test battery. I offer my congratulations to the 473,000 new GED credential recipients. I salute their focus, dedication, and commitment. They join the more than 16 million people who have earned their credentials since the program’s inception. Even after 65 years, the GED credential still opens doors to career and educational opportunities. It remains the only high school equivalency recognized and accepted by all 50 states and Canada.

This report is only one component of the research that we conduct annually at GED Testing Service. Within the last year, we also have produced research reports on the relationship between preparedness and perfor-mance on the GED Tests, how testing center policies may impact test-taker performance, postsecondary out-comes of credential recipients, and much more.

I am especially pleased to announce a groundbreaking study titled Crossing the Bridge: GED Credentials and Postsecondary Educational Outcomes, which examines the college entrance, participation, and completion rates of a large cohort of GED credential recipients. We see the potential for this first installment to be the foundation for ongoing work in this area.

Improvements to the annual statistical report, introduction of Crossing the Bridge, in addition to other studies to come, and input from our expert Research Advisory Panel are all part of our effort to expand our research agenda and deliver critical information to our market. I invite you to use all of the research resources available on our web site at www.GEDtest.org under the Publications & Research link.

I also would encourage researchers and organizations dedicated to adult learning to join us in helping expand the body of knowledge about adult learners. Together, we must address the issues that prevent us from hav-ing a fuller picture of this important segment.

As a final note, I would like to say “thank you” to the GED testing professionals and adult educators who dedicate themselves daily to the needs of adult learners. Their work and determination is an inspiration to us all. Above all, this report is a tribute to them.

Nicole M. Chestang Executive Director, GED Testing Service Vice President, American Council on Education

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Acknowledgments

We wish to acknowledge Anne Guison-Dowdy, Margaret Becker Patterson, Wei Song, and Jizhi Zhang of GED Testing Service for their contributions to the data analyses and development of this report. Additionally, several GED Testing Service colleagues provided ideas and comments that enhanced

this report, including Adora Beard, Martha Bozman, Cassandra Brown, Carol Ezzelle, Yung-chen Hsu, Carl Setzer, and Christopher (CT) Turner. We also thank Mikyung Ryu of the ACE Center for Policy Analysis for her review and thoughtful comments. We greatly appreciate the efforts of the ACE staff who edited, designed, and published this report, including Donald Hoyt, Allie Moore, Paula Moore, Charlene Osman, Kecianne Shick, Mary Swarna, and Laura Worthington.

This publication was made possible through the exceptional leadership of the GED Administrators and GED Examiners who direct the testing program, serve the candidates, and partner with GED Testing Service to provide adults with a second opportunity to earn a high school equivalency credential, diploma, or certificate. Finally, we extend our thanks to the official GED scoring sites for providing candidate demographic and test information, and to Ken Tra of MARSYS for managing the international database.

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1 Throughout this report, the term jurisdiction is used to refer to an entity such as a U.S. state, insular area, Canadian province or territory, U.S. military facility, correctional institution, or Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital that administers a GED testing program.

2 From this point on, the terms GED Test candidate, GED Test completer, and GED Test passer will be referred to as candidate, completer, and passer, respectively.

3 For the purposes of this report, an adult is someone aged 16 and older in the United States and the insular areas or 15 and older in Canada. See Definitions of Terms on page 3.

4 A high school credential means a regular high school diploma or alternative secondary certificate, such as a GED credential.5 An educational program could include secondary, postsecondary, or other types of instruction.

Executive Summary

The 2009 GED® Testing Program Statistical Report is the 52nd annual report in the program’s 68-year history of providing a second opportunity for adults without a high school credential to earn their juris-diction’s1 GED credential. The report provides can-didate demographic and GED Test performance statistics as well as historical information on the GED testing program. GED Testing Service®, with the cooperation of jurisdictions that administer the GED Test, is the sole source of worldwide data on the GED testing program and GED Test candidates2 and receives no federal funds.

In 2009, more than 788,000 adults worldwide took some portion of the five GED Test content areas measuring skills of writing, reading, social studies, science, and mathematics. Approximately 684,000 people completed the GED Test. Nearly 473,000 of these completers (69.2 percent) met the passing stan-dard by earning scores equal to or higher than those earned by the top 60 percent of graduating high school seniors.

This report is presented in such a way as to facili-tate comparisons across jurisdictions on pass rates, candidate demographics, and trends across time, yet the reader is cautioned while making such com-parisons. Ultimately, each jurisdiction manages its own GED testing program, is dependent upon the funding it receives, and establishes many testing-program and related policies. Thus, it is important to recognize that variability among jurisdictions may correlate with testing program outcomes such as pass rates. For example, jurisdictions that prescreen candidates by requiring them to pass the Official GED Practice Tests (OPT) generally have higher GED Test pass rates. This report draws attention to situa-tions in which the outcomes may reflect jurisdictional variability.

Highlights of the 2009 GED® Testing Program Statistical Report include the following:

SECTION I: WHO LaCKS a HIGH SCHOOL CREDENTIaL aND WHO TOOK THE GED TEST?

• The 2000 U.S. Census indicates that more than 39 million adults3 (18 percent) aged 16 and older in the United States lack a high school credential4 and are not enrolled in any educational program.5

• Across the entire GED testing program in 2009, 1.7 percent of adults without a high school cre-dential tested in one or more content areas of the GED Test, 1.5 percent of adults without a high school credential completed the GED Test, and 1.0 percent passed the GED Test.

• Among candidates who tested in 2009, nearly nine out of every 10 (86.7 percent) completed the GED Test. This statistic signals the level of determina-tion of most candidates to meet their goal of gain-ing a high school credential.

• 78.5 percent of the candidates who tested in 2009 tried the GED Test for the first time. Among those who first completed the GED Test in 2009, 74.1 percent passed the GED Test. Approximately 21.5 percent of candidates in 2009 were continu-ing or repeat test-takers.

• The average age of all candidates was nearly 26 years in 2009. Candidates who were 16 to 18 years old accounted for 26.3 percent of all can-didates. In 2009, 57.8 percent of the candidates were male and 42.2 percent were female.

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6 Candidates could select as many reasons as applied, so reasons do not sum to 100 percent.7 The standard score requirement for passing the GED Test in Kansas in 2009 was 420 minimum in each content area and a

minimum total score of 2,250. In South Dakota, a 450 minimum standard score was required for each content area.8 Candidates pass the GED Test by earning an average standard score of 450 or higher in the five individual content areas

(equivalent to a standard score total of 2,250 or higher) and earning a minimum standard score of 410 in each individual con-tent area if they tested in most of the United States (see footnote 7), or 450 if they tested in Canada. In Puerto Rico, the total score requirement is 2,700 for the Spanish-language GED Test and 2,250 for the English-language GED Test.

• The ethnic distributions of candidates have remained relatively stable during the current series of the GED Test. Of all candidates who indicated ethnicity when they tested in 2009, 50.2 percent were white, 24.7 percent African American, 20.1 percent Hispanic, 2.5 percent American Indian/Alaska Native, 1.8 percent Asian, and 0.7 percent Pacific Islander/Hawaiian.

• In 2009, 71.1 percent of all candidates reported that they completed at least 10th grade. Overall, 27.0 percent of the candidates indicated that they had been out of school for one year or less, yet 28.8 percent of the candidates waited more than 10 years before taking the GED Test. The overall average number of years out of school before test-ing was approximately eight years.

• Educational reasons were the most often cited reasons for taking the GED Test. Approximately 62.4 percent of all candidates indicated that they tested for educational reasons.6 More than half of all candidates (51.9 percent) indicated that they tested for personal reasons, such as being a posi-tive role model and personal satisfaction. Half of candidates (50.1 percent) identified employment reasons (primarily to get a better job) for testing.

• More than 30,000 candidates tested predominantly using the Spanish-language GED Test. Seven juris-dictions (California, Texas, Puerto Rico, New York, Illinois, Oregon, and Colorado) accounted for 66.1 percent of the Spanish-language test-takers. Nearly 944 candidates took the French-language GED Test. New York, New Brunswick, and Quebec tested 82.0 percent of the French-language test-takers.

• For all candidates who tested in 2009, the per-centages of those achieving their jurisdiction’s minimum standard score in each content area (410 in the United States7

and 450 in Canada) were higher than 90 percent, except for Mathematics and Language Arts, Writing. Fewer candidates (81.6 and 88.8 percent, respectively) scored high enough to meet the minimum standard score in Mathematics and Language Arts, Writing.

SECTION II: WHO PaSSED THE GED TEST?

• In 2009, 69.2 percent of the completers (nearly 473,000 adults) passed the GED Test.8

• Jurisdictions that had higher pass rates generally required candidates to have completed an adult education program of study and/or pass the OPT before allowing them to take the GED Test. Of the eight jurisdictions with the highest pass rates in the United States, six required their candidates to pass the OPT. OPT prerequisites were in effect in 23 jurisdictions.

• The average age of passers across all jurisdictions was nearly 25 years, and has remained between 24 and 25 years during the operation of the cur-rent series. Passers were slightly younger, on aver-age, than candidates.

• In 2009, 60.3 percent of the passers were male and 39.7 percent were female. Passers tended to be male even more frequently than did candidates.

• The ethnic distribution of all passers in 2009 was 59.2 percent white, 18.5 percent African American, 17.8 percent Hispanic, 2.1 percent American Indian/Alaska Native, 1.7 percent Asian, and 0.7 percent Pacific Islander/Hawaiian.

• In 2009, 73.7 percent of the passers completed 10th grade or higher; this percentage is about the same as for candidates. The average number of years out of school for passers was 7.3 years, slightly lower than for candidates.

• As with the entire population of candidates, educational reasons (64.5 percent) and personal reasons (54.8 percent) for testing were the most frequently chosen reasons for testing by passers in 2009.

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• The GED Test average standard score across the five content areas for all passers was 527. Mathematics and Language Arts, Writing were the two most difficult content areas as indicated by the average standard scores (497 and 501, respectively).

• Data on pass rates were disaggregated by age, gender, and ethnic group. Generally, younger test-takers, males, and white candidates tended to have higher pass rates. These differences in pass rates are consistent with data from other large-scale assessment programs, such as ACT, California High School Exit Examination, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), or SAT. Variability in pass rates among states also occurred; the performance difference across ethnic groups was considerably smaller in some states than in others.

SECTION III: TRENDS IN THE GED TESTING PROGRaM

• Since 1943, nearly 17.8 million individuals have passed the GED Test.

• In general, since 2002, there have been gradual increases each year in the number of candidates who tested and the number of candidates who completed the GED Test. The yearly pass rate for the current series has ranged from 68.0 percent to 72.6 percent.

• The average age of all candidates remained rela-tively unchanged during the last 15 years at 25 years old. In 2009, however, the average age increased to almost 26 years. The percentage of candidates aged 16 to 18 has decreased from 31.3 percent to 26.3 percent since 2002, and the percentage of candidates aged 19 to 24 has fluctu-ated between 34.5 and 37.3 percent.

• Since the testing program’s inception, the average highest grade completed has remained largely sta-ble at 10th. With regard to candidates’ reasons for taking the GED Test, the percentage of candidates who indicated they were planning further study has been stable during the current series, ranging from 58.6 percent to 63.3 percent.

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At the request of the military, the GED® Test was first developed in 1942 to help returning World War II veterans finish their high school

studies and reenter civilian life. The GED Test first became available to civilians in 1947 when the state of New York implemented a program to award its high school diploma to those who passed the test. In 1973, California became the final state to join the GED testing program. During its 68-year history, the GED testing program has served as a bridge to fur-ther education and employment as well as to provide personal satisfaction for more than 17 million people who passed the GED Test.

Since 1958, GED Testing Service® has produced annual statistical reports profiling GED Test candi-dates and the GED testing program. These reports were developed primarily for GED testing program partners who use the data to compare candidate demographics and testing program outcomes across jurisdictions and years. GED testing program part-ners and other interested constituents may use this report to assist in making informed educational and policy decisions. Many will use the report to exam-ine testing program outcomes, such as pass rates for the GED Test, as well as to identify areas for further study.

GED Testing Service develops and delivers the GED Test and has established its passing standard. In 2009, 788,314 adults worldwide took some por-tion of the GED Test, and 683,519 completed the GED Test. Of the completers, 472,913 (69.2 percent) met their jurisdiction’s GED Test passing standard by earning scores equal to or higher than those earned by the top 60 percent of graduating high school seniors. By passing the GED Test and earning their jurisdictions’ high school equivalency credential, diploma, or certificate, these adults have earned a second chance to advance their educational, person-al, and professional aspirations.

JURISDICTIONaL ROLES

This report presents data made available from juris-dictions that administered the GED Test in 2009, and is divided into four sections, followed by a series of appendices. These sections combine figures, tables, and text to present the following:

• The potential need for high school equivalency credentials among adults and a description of the population of adults without a high school cre-dential who took the GED Test in the report year.

• Demographic and test score summaries for adults who passed the GED Test in the report year.

• Trend information about the GED testing program, such as data that are separated by test series and jurisdiction since 1943, information on first-time test-takers for the 2002 series, and statistics on the use of different language versions of the test.

• Information about the GED testing program, including GED Testing Service staff members; GED Administrators and their contact information; GED Testing Service Advisory Board members; and GED Testing Service research publications.

This report is presented in such a way as to facilitate comparisons across jurisdictions on pass rates, can-didate demographics, and trends across time, yet the reader is cautioned while making such comparisons. Ultimately, each jurisdiction manages its own GED testing program, is dependent upon the funding it receives, and establishes many testing program and related policies (see Appendix A). All jurisdictions determine the number and location of the testing centers, administer the GED Test, and award their high school equivalency credentials to adults who meet the GED Test passing standard and any other jurisdictional requirements, such as exceeding the age of compulsory attendance. Jurisdictions estab-lish testing fees and requirements to begin testing, to retest (if necessary), and to receive a diploma, a credential, or a certificate. Some jurisdictions specify how long a candidate may take to complete a test battery or if scores from incomplete test batter-ies ever expire. Policies on Spanish- and French-language and English as a Second Language (ESL) testing also are collected from jurisdictions. Thus,

Introduction

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9 From this point on, the terms GED Test candidate, GED Test completer, and GED Test passer will be referred to as candidate, completer, and passer, respectively.

10 Some candidates who passed the GED Test may have continued to retest in one or more content areas in an attempt to increase their scores for scholarships, trade or educational program entrance, and so forth.

it is important to recognize that variability among jurisdictions may correlate with testing program out-comes such as pass rates. For example, jurisdictions that prescreen candidates by requiring them to pass the Official GED Practice Tests generally have higher GED Test pass rates. This report draws attention to situations in which the outcomes may reflect jurisdic-tional variability.

aBOUT THE DaTa

methodologyThis report presents available data from the 2009 administration of the GED testing program. Data collection began at the more than 3,100 active Official GED Testing Centers that lease the GED Test under strict contractual guidelines specifying the use, administration, and security of the test. These centers operate in the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, eight insular areas, 13 Canadian provinces and territories, and under inter-regional contracts (including U.S. military bases, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Michigan prisons, Veterans Affairs [VA] hospitals, and international PrometricTM

centers). Candidate demographic surveys, completed by can-didates prior to testing, and test booklets were for-warded to one of 17 official GED electronic scoring sites for processing. Candidates’ demographic and test records were then uploaded to a centralized international database.

Demographic surveys that were completed by GED Test candidates9 who tested in one or more content areas of GED Test in 2009 were used to create the candidate-level data demographic tables and figures in this report. All demographic analyses were based on available candidate responses to the demographic survey that candidates completed at the time they began testing. In accordance with the passage of Canada’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FOIPP) in 2003, only age and gender statistics are reported for the Canadian jurisdictions.

To be included in the current report, a candidate must have tested in at least one of the five content areas of the GED Test in the current report year, and must not have passed the GED Test in a prior year.10 Candidates were represented in the jurisdic-tion where they last tested in the current report year;

therefore, each candidate was represented only once in the analyses. For example, if a candidate tested in Maryland in January and Virginia in April, the can-didate would be counted only in Virginia because April is more recent than January. Prior to the 2002 Series GED Test, when individual jurisdictions pro-vided summary statistics to GED Testing Service, multiple jurisdictions may have reported the same candidate if the candidate tested in more than one jurisdiction.

Even though each candidate was represented only once in the statistics, the jurisdictional groupings used in some of the figures and all of the tables do not provide mutually exclusive distinctions in terms of geographic location. For example, Michigan pris-ons data were reported under inter-regional con-tracts and not under the state of Michigan because Michigan prisons fund and manage their own GED testing program independent of the state of Michigan’s GED testing program. However, Michigan prisons were not the only prisons or correctional facilities to administer the GED Test. Other jurisdic-tions tested incarcerated adults, and those candi-dates were included in their respective jurisdiction’s statistics.

All test scores referred to in this report are standard scores that range from 200 to 800. The score analy-ses based on all candidates used the best standard score that was earned in the current report year. Standard score statistics were based on scores from the English-, Spanish-, and French-language GED Tests. If candidates tested more than once in a con-tent area, their best standard score for the content area from the current report year was used in the analyses.

Statistics on adults who passed the GED Test were based on candidates who completed testing in all five content areas and met the passing standard by the end of the current report year. If those passers tested more than once in a content area(s), their best standard score for the content area was used in analyses; this best score may have been obtained in a previous year. For all candidates (except Spanish- or French-language test-takers), the earliest year they were permitted to have completed testing in one or more of the five content areas is 2002.

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Again, when making comparisons across jurisdic-tions, it is important to avoid over-interpretation of any differences that appear. For example, if one jurisdiction has a higher pass rate than another, this pass rate may reflect underlying differences in GED testing program policies, such as testing prerequisites (see Appendix A), homogeneity of candidates in jurisdictions, or statistics based on a small number of candidates.

definitions of termsAdult—For the purposes of this report, an adult is someone aged 16 and older in the United States and the insular areas. This definition is consistent with the definition in the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act of 1998, Title II of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, and the U.S. Code (Title 20: Education, Chapter 73: Adult Education and Literacy, Subchapter I: Adult Education and Family Literacy, Paragraph 9202: Definitions). In a context of adult basic and secondary education, both sources define adults as individuals “who have attained 16 years of age and who are not enrolled or required to be enrolled in secondary school under state law.” For Canada, adults are people aged 15 and older, based on 2006 Canadian Census of Population data.

Content area—The GED Test includes five content areas that assess skills and knowledge in the follow-ing core high school academic subjects: Language Arts, Writing; Social Studies; Science; Language Arts, Reading; and Mathematics.

First-time candidates—Candidates who took the 2002 Series GED Test for the first time in the report year and who had never tested in previous years.

First-time completers—First-time candidates (see definition above) who completed the GED Test.

First-time passers—First-time candidates (see defini-tion above) who completed and passed the GED Test.

GED Administrator—The person contractually responsible for supervising and administering the GED testing program at the state, provincial, territo-rial, or inter-regional level. The GED Administrator is responsible for ensuring adequate training for GED Chief Examiners and GED Examiners in adhering to contractual obligations.

GED credential—An official document awarded and issued by a GED testing jurisdiction, indicating that an individual has met the minimum passing standard on the GED Test as well as any other high school equivalency requirements in that jurisdiction. In some jurisdictions, the credential is called a GED diploma or certificate.

GED Test—A high school equivalency assessment consisting of five content areas. It was designed and produced according to psychometric standards and properties in order to provide an opportunity for adults who did not complete a formal high school program to certify their attainment of high school–level academic knowledge and skills and earn their jurisdiction’s high school–level equivalency creden-tial, diploma, or certificate.

GED Test candidates—Adults who have tested in at least one of the five content areas of the GED Test, regardless of whether they completed or met the GED Test passing standard. In this report, the terms candidates and test-takers are used interchangeably with GED Test candidates.

GED Test completers—Candidates who have tested in all five content areas of the GED Test, regardless of whether they met the GED Test passing standard. The number of completers serves as the denomina-tor for calculating the pass rate. A candidate must have completed all five content areas and met the minimum passing standard in order to be considered a passer. In this report, the term completers is used interchangeably with GED Test completers.

GED Test passers—Completers who have met their jurisdiction’s minimum passing standard (see Appendix A for detailed score requirements). The number of adults who met the passing standard serves as the numerator for calculating the pass rate. Some jurisdictions require adults to fulfill additional requirements beyond passing the GED Test in order to receive a GED credential (see Appendix A). In this report, the terms passers is used interchangeably with GED Test passers.

Insular areas—All unincorporated U.S. common-wealths and territories, and freely associated states. Although the U.S. Office of Insular Affairs does not exercise responsibility for Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico is referred to as an insular area. The term insular areas replaces IAFAS (Insular Areas and Freely Associated States), which was used in annual statistical reports in 2004 and prior.

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Inter-regional contracts—GED Testing Service con-tracts with inter-regional jurisdictions whose candi-dates come from multiple intrastate, interstate, or national regions, including DANTES (Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support; military and dependent family members tested on military facili-ties in the United States and internationally), Federal Bureau of Prisons, international civilian testing sites operated by PrometricTM, Michigan prisons, and Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals.

Jurisdiction—Entity such as a U.S. state, insular area, Canadian province or territory, or inter-regional con-tractor that administers a GED testing program.

Language version—In addition to English, the GED Test is offered in Spanish-language and in French-language versions to provide an opportunity to adults who have Spanish or French as their primary language to certify their attainment of high school–level academic knowledge and skills. The Spanish-language version of all content areas except the Language Arts, Writing Test are direct translations of the respective English-language U.S. versions, and the Language Arts, Writing Test was developed separately. The French-language version of all con-tent areas except the Language Arts, Writing Test are direct translations of the respective English-language Canadian versions, and the Language Arts, Writing Test was developed separately.

Minimum passing standard—To successfully pass the GED Test, a test-taker must meet or exceed the minimum passing standard with a total stan-dard score of 2,250 (in Puerto Rico, the total score requirement is 2,700 for the Spanish-language GED Test and 2,500 for the English-language GED Test) and a minimum standard score of 410 in each of the five content areas (420 in Kansas and 450 in South Dakota and Canada). Because GED Test scoring is based on a compensatory model, test-takers must earn an additional 200 standard score points beyond the 410 needed in each content area to reach the total passing standard of 2,250. The 200 additional standard score points may come from any one or a combination of content areas.

Official GED Practice Test—The Official GED Practice Test (OPT) was developed and copyrighted by GED Testing Service and the American Council on Education, and offers a sampling of test items from each content area in the GED Test. The OPT items are created, analyzed, and tested by GED Testing Service academic subject and psychometrics experts, and distributed through contractual agree-ment by an outside vendor.

Retest—A retest occurs when a candidate retests in any of the content areas in which he or she failed to meet the minimum passing standard. A candidate also may retest if he or she did meet the minimum passing standard but wants to improve the test score.

Series GED Test—The GED Test has been devel-oped upon similar test specifications and psychomet-ric standards and properties. There have been three previous series of the GED Test: 1942, 1978, and 1988. The fourth and current series was released in 2002 (English-language U.S. and Canadian versions), followed by Spanish- and French-language versions released in 2004. Changes made in each series were the result of the identification of specific areas of need or assessment that would strengthen the test and provide evidence of test score validity and cred-ibility in a changing world.

Special editions—Special formats of the GED Test are available in addition to the standard print edi-tions for candidates with physical, learning, or psy-chological disabilities. These formats include large-print, audiocassette, and Braille editions. Although the audiocassette and Braille editions may be used by candidates with documented disabilities who were approved for test accommodations, the large-print edition does not require additional documenta-tion for use.

Standard score—The standard score is reflective of a test-taker’s performance on the GED Test. For the 2002 Series GED Test, the standard score scale rang-es from 200 to 800, and falls along a normal distribu-tion with a mean of 500 and standard deviation of 100. Standard scores are used to compare an exam-inee’s performance on a test with the performance of graduating high school seniors who took the test.

Target population—The target population consists of all adults (as defined above) who lack a traditional high school credential and further training or degrees and who could potentially take the GED Test and therefore further their educational, professional, and personal aspirations after acquiring a GED credential.

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11 American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association, and National Council of Measurement in Education. (1999). Standards for educational and psychological testing. Washington, DC: American Educational Research Association.

12 The Technical Manual: 2002 Series GED Tests is available as a PDF file under the Publications & Research heading at www.GEDtest.org.

13 In Kansas and South Dakota, the minimum standard score requirement for each content area was 420 and 450, respectively, in 2009.

14 In Puerto Rico, the total score requirement is 2,700 for the Spanish-language GED Test and 2,250 for the English-language GED Test.

aBOUT THE CURRENT SERIES GED TEST

The current series GED Test provides evidence of adult learners’ high school–level academic knowl-edge and skills, which the GED Test has done for more than 60 years. The GED Test certifies these competencies regardless of how or where the indi-vidual learned them. Participating jurisdictions world-wide recognize that an adult who passed the GED Test has earned scores equal to those earned by the top 60 percent of recent graduating high school seniors.

• The GED Test provides adults the opportunity to certify their attainment of high school–level knowledge and skills. The current series GED Test reflects high school curriculum standards developed at the national and jurisdictional levels, including content relevant to the workplace and community. The five content areas in the GED Test are Language Arts, Writing; Social Studies; Science; Language Arts, Reading; and Mathematics.

• The GED Test passing standard is rigorous. To pass the GED Test, a candidate’s performance must be equivalent to or better than the perfor-mance of the top 60 percent of traditional graduat-ing high school seniors.

• The GED Test is demanding. To test in all five content areas amounts to seven hours and five minutes of testing. The GED Test measures skills in communication, information processing, prob-lem solving, and critical thinking.

developing the current series ged testIn the four years of the development cycle culmi-nating in the release of the current GED Test series in 2002, national panels of experts researched and created the test specifications, new test questions were developed, a score scale was determined, and the passing standard for the current series GED Test was established. GED Testing Service follows the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing

established by the American Educational Research Association, the American Psychological Association, and the National Council on Measurement in Education.11

The creation of test specifications involved enlist-ing the aid of content matter experts who had spe-cific knowledge of classroom practices as well as state, provincial, or national curriculum standards. A diverse group of these experts—diverse in geog-raphy, gender, and ethnicity—made up each GED Test content area committee. Each of the committees was charged with the same broad goal: to identify what is currently being taught in U.S. and Canadian high schools. To achieve this goal, each committee inventoried the current curriculum practices observed in the classroom and assessed the alignment of the observed content with the state, national, and provin-cial curriculum standards. To learn more about the GED Test, development of current series, and recent standardization, reliability, and validity studies, con-sult the Technical Manual: 2002 Series GED Tests.12

interpreting ged test scoresEach test score is reported on a standardized scale ranging from 200 to 800. To pass the GED Test, a candidate must attain a standard score total of 2,250 or higher across all five content areas; in addition, each individual content area standard score must be 410 or higher in the United States13

and insular areas14 or 450 or higher in Canada (see Appendix A for individual jurisdiction requirements). The mini-mum passing standard used in the United States and insular areas follows a model that allows students to compensate for performance in one content area by stronger performance in another; that is, a lower score in one content area can be compensated by a higher score in another content area and result in passing the GED Test. In this way, the model advo-cates that many skills are important contributions to achievement, and that it is possible for most exam-inees to compensate for weaknesses in one area by using strengths in other areas.

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In addition to standard scores, the GED Test tran-script also reports normative scores—percentile ranks—based on a nationally representative, stratified random sample of graduating high school students tested in the spring of their senior year. The GED Test standard scores and percentile ranks can be used to describe the performance of knowledge and skills of an adult who takes the GED Test compared with the performance of traditional, graduating high school seniors. Separate norms are prepared for the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. The percen-tile ranks reported for the current series GED Test were used to develop class ranks as shown in Table 1.

GED Test scores have the following properties:

• The median GED Test standard score for U.S. graduating high school seniors is 500 for each of the five content areas.

• The standard deviation is 100 points of the stan-dard score scale for U.S. graduating high school seniors for each of the five content areas.

• The percentage of graduating seniors who scored at or below each GED Test standard score value is the same for each of the five content areas.

• A candidate’s national class rank can be estimated based on the average standard score of all five content areas.

• The percentile ranks provided on the GED Test transcripts are those for graduating high school seniors, not for candidates.

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estimated national class rank

700 Top 1%

670 Top 2%

660 Top 3%

640 Top 5%

610 Top 10%

580 Top 15%

570 Top 20%

550 Top 25%

530 Top 33%

520 Top 40%

500 Top 50%

460 Top 55%

450 Top 60%

Source: Technical Manual: 2002 Series GED® Tests.

TaBLE 1ged® test average standard score and estimated national (u.s.) class rank of graduating high school seniors

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15 An educational program could include secondary, postsecondary, or other types of instruction.

WHO LaCKS a HIGH SCHOOL CREDENTIaL?

Data from the 2000 U.S. Census and the 2007 American Community Survey are used to iden-tify the target population and their demographic

characteristics in the United States. These government data include adults aged 16 and older who did not have a high school credential and who were not enrolled in any educational program.15 To identify the target popu-lation in Canada, data from the 2006 Canadian Census of Population are reported, which include the numbers of Canadian adults aged 15 and older who did not have a high school diploma or certificate.

The 2000 U.S. Census data provide a clear indication that many adults in the United States (aged 16 and older) lack a high school credential. More than 39 million adults within this age range, or 18 percent of the U.S. adult population, did not complete a high school education, were not enrolled in an education program, and did not have a high school credential. In every state and the District of Columbia, at least 10 percent of adults did not have a high school cre-dential and were not enrolled in an education pro-gram (see Figure 1).

Who Lacks a High School Credential and Who Took the GED Test?

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FIGURE 1Percentage of u.s. and canadian adults without a high school credential, by state or Province/territory

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Those adults lacking a high school credential may experience difficulty pursuing further education and opportunities for higher income.

The lack of high school credentials is most preva-lent in most of the southern U.S. states, and also in Texas and California. In these states, more than one of every five adults does not have a high school cre-dential, according to the 2000 U.S. Census data.

Data from the 2007 American Community Survey describe the current overall status of adults without

a high school credential in the United States (see Figure 2). An uneven distribution of adults without a high school credential was observed in all 2007 American Community Survey demographic clas-sifications except gender, in which 15 percent of males and 14 percent of females did not have a high school credential. The largest disparity in the per-centage of adults without a high school credential in key demographic groups was between Hispanics (35 percent) and whites (10 percent). Moreover, the percentage of Hispanics without a high school credential was 17 percentage points higher than the

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centages reported from the 2007 American Community Survey, in contrast to 2000 U.S. Census data, are likely due to differences in age range and sampling methodology and do not necessarily reflect an actual increase or decrease in target population.

2 Compared with percents reported in previous years, the percent for the “Other” category is less because of a difference in methodology between how GED Testing Service® interpreted the 2000 U.S. Census and the 2007 American Community Survey related to how Hispanic adults are counted. “Other” currently includes all other adults not already included in the “White,” “African American,” “Hispanic,” “Native American,” and ”Asian/Pacific Islander” categories described above.

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Sources: 2000 U.S. Census,2006 Canadian Census of Population, and 2009 GED Testing Service data.®

FIGURE 3Percentage of u.s. and canadian adults without a high school credential who took the ged test®, by state or Province/territory: 2009

percentage of African American adults and 15 per-centage points higher than the percentage of Native American adults. Comparably low percentages of Asian/Pacific Islanders (12 percent), white adults (10 percent), and adults of other ethnicities (12 per-cent) lacked a high school credential. Nearly one-third (30 percent) of adults with household incomes at or below the federal poverty line did not have a high school credential, compared with 12 percent of adults whose household income was above the pov-erty line. Of adults whose household incomes were less than $40,000 annually, 18 percent lacked a high school credential.

Although there was an overall higher percentage of adults lacking a high school diploma in Canada than in the United States, results varied greatly among jurisdictions, according to the 2006 Canadian Census of the Population data. There was a 37 percentage point difference between British Columbia and

Nunavut, the jurisdictions with the lowest and high-est percentages (20 and 57 percent, respectively) of adults aged 15 and older without a high school diploma. Further, geographic disparities show that adults living in northern or central Canadian jurisdic-tions tended to have a higher percentage of adults lacking a high school diploma or credential.

WHO TOOK THE GED TEST?

In 2009, the majority of the U.S. states and all the Canadian provinces/territories tested 2 percent or less of adults without a high school credential (see Figure 3). States and provinces/territories tested varying proportions of adults without a high school credential. GED Testing Service collaborates with jurisdictions to encourage adults without a high school credential to work toward a GED credential.

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Even though the relationship between the percentage of adults in need of a high school credential within a U.S. state and the percentage of those adults tested in that state was generally positive, high-need states did not always test the highest percentages of adults in need. Twelve states had the highest percentage of adults without a high school credential (equal to or more than 20.1 percent), but only three states in this group—Georgia, Mississippi, and North Carolina—tested 2.1 percent or more of those adults. Among the 18 states with 15.1 percent to 20.0 percent of adults without a high school credential, four—Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Virginia—tested more than 2.1 percent of those adults. Conversely, in many of the less densely populated states where the need was lower, higher percentages of adults took the GED Test. For example, among states where 15.0 percent or less of the adults are in need of a high school credential, five—Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Washington, and Wyoming—tested 4.0 percent or more of those adults.

Across the entire GED testing program in 2009, 1.7 percent of the adults without a high school cre-dential tested in one or more content areas of the GED Test, 1.5 percent of those adults completed the GED Test, and 1.0 percent passed the GED Test (see Table 2 on pages 12 and 13). In other words, of all adults who lack a high school credential, only approximately two out of every 100 attempted to take the GED Test, and one out of every 100 passed the GED Test.

Completing the GED Test is a prerequisite to deter-mining whether a candidate passed the GED Test. Among candidates who tested in 2009, nearly nine out of every 10 completed the GED Test. This sta-tistic signals the level of determination of most GED Test candidates16 to meet their goal of gaining a high school credential. This number includes candidates who tested for the first time in 2009 as well as those who began testing in a previous year since 2002. In 22 U.S. states, at least 90 percent of candidates completed the GED Test; however, in 16 U.S. states, less than 80 percent of the candidates who tested completed the GED Test. In the insular areas, 98.4 percent of candidates completed the GED Test. In Canada, all jurisdictions except Northwest Territories and Nunavut had completion rates higher than 90 percent. Lastly, of all candidates who com-pleted the GED Test in 2009, 69.2 percent passed.

Differences in jurisdictional testing policies (see Appendix A) can provide one explanation for vari-ability in completion rates and pass rates among jurisdictions. For example, in Iowa, where first-time test-takers have two years to complete the entire battery, the completion rate was 64.0 percent, or 22.3 percentage points lower than the U.S. average. However, candidates in Iowa who want to retest are generally required to wait before retesting and to show evidence of remediation through proficient scores on Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment System (CASAS) or Official GED Practice Tests. The requirement of a wait period and remediation for retesting might have contributed to Iowa’s pass rate of 98.1 percent, the highest among all jurisdictions. In contrast, the completion rate was as high as 99.6 percent in Alabama, where first-time candidates are required to complete the entire test battery in 90 days. However, there is only a 42-day wait period and no remediation is required for retesting. As a result, regardless of their preparedness, candidates must complete the GED Test or retest within a lim-ited time frame, which may be associated with a lower pass rate (57.3 percent) in Alabama.

Table 3 (see pages 14 and 15) presents statistics for first-time candidates who tested, completed, and passed in 2009. First-time candidates who started to test during 2009 accounted for the majority (78.5 percent) of all candidates and 78.3 percent in the United States. In two jurisdictions in the United States, more than 90 percent of candidates were first-time test-takers in 2009: Delaware (95.8 percent) and Kansas (95.5 percent); Wisconsin (63.2 percent) and Nebraska (69.9 percent) had the lowest percentages of first-time U.S. candidates in 2009. First-time candidates accounted for 85.6 percent of all test-takers in Canada. The percentage of first-time candi-dates among all test-takers for inter-regional contracts was 76.7 percent.

For the entire GED testing program, 76.9 percent of all completers were first-time completers in 2009; the percentage of first-time completers in the United States was 77.2 percent. In the United States, two states had more than 90 percent of completers who were first-time completers, Delaware and Kansas. First-time completers who passed are reported within first-time completers in order to assess the pass rates of candidates who first took and completed the test

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during 2009. Of all first-time completers in 2009, approximately 74.1 percent passed the GED Test; the corresponding percentage for the United States only was 74.2 percent. In eight jurisdictions with at least five first-time completers—Alaska, Delaware, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, North Carolina, Wyoming, and DANTES— the pass rate for first-time completers was higher than 90 percent in 2009.

GED TEST CaNDIDaTE DEMOGRaPHICS

ageAge calculations were based on the most recent test-ing date in 2009 and date of birth. The average age in 2009 increased to nearly 26 years for the first time since the mid 1990s. The average age of all candi-dates program-wide was 25.8 years (standard deviation=9.5). In the United States, the average age was 25.6 (standard deviation=9.4). The average ages of candidates in insular areas and under inter- regional contracts were 24.6 (standard deviation=8.1) and 28.6 (standard deviation=10.0), respectively. In Canada, the average age of candidates was 31.6 (standard deviation=11.0). Appendix B displays age statistics for candidates in all jurisdictions in 2009, and Appendix W presents age statistics since 2002.

The percentage of all candidates aged 16 to 24 years has decreased from 68.7 percent to 61.9 percent since 2002. Approximately 26.3 percent of all candi-dates in 2009 were 16 to 18 years old, ages at which many jurisdictions require additional documentation and permissions in order to take the GED Test. This percentage decreased slightly from 29.9 percent in 2008, which marks the first year the percentage dropped below 30 percent in the current series. The age 19- to 24-year-old age group saw a slight increase since 2008, from 34.7 percent to 35.8 per-cent. Every successive age group beginning with age 25 to 29 saw a small increase in the percent of test-takers in 2009, with the exception of the group aged 60 and older, which stayed the same as that in 2008. Even though the GED testing program reaches adults older than age 100, candidates aged 50 to 59 years and 60 years and older made up the smallest groups of candidates, at 2.6 and 0.4 percent, respectively. Canada had the largest percentage (7.8 percent) of candidates aged 50 and older, compared with other jurisdictional groupings. Inter-regional contracts com-prised the jurisdictional grouping with the second highest percentage (3.9 percent) of candidates 50 years and older.

GED Testing Service sets the absolute minimum age for taking the GED Test at 16 years, but jurisdictions may set their own policies on age requirements for testing and for receiving a GED credential higher than the absolute minimum. However, exceptions based on additional documentation or approval are provided to candidates who are below the jurisdic-tion’s minimum age (see Appendix A for a complete listing). The minimum age for taking the GED Test ranged from 16 to 20 years in the U.S. jurisdictions. Although Quebec allowed 16-year-old candidates to test, seven of the Canadian jurisdictions set their minimum age at 18 years and five jurisdictions set their minimum age at 19 years. As in the United States, some Canadian jurisdictions allowed individu-al exceptions for candidates younger than the mini-mum age to test based on additional documentation or approval. In Canada, approximately 3.1 percent of candidates were 16 to 18 years old.

genderOf all candidates who tested in 2009, 57.8 per-cent were male and 42.2 percent were female (see Appendix C). Except for six jurisdictions, the majority of the candidates were male. Specifically in American Samoa, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, and the Federated States of Micronesia, females represented a larger percentage (50.2 percent to 64.4 percent) of the candidates tested. In the United States, the percent-ages of male and female candidates were similar to the overall percentages; however, in jurisdictions within inter-regional contracts, 86.4 percent of the candidates were male. Candidates who were tested under inter-regional contracts included inmates in the Federal Bureau of Prisons, inmates in Michigan pris-ons, military personnel and dependent family mem-bers, and international and VA hospital candidates.

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alabama 797,910 15,269 1.9 15,201 99.6 1.9 8,713 57.3 1.1alaska 51,665 2,725 5.3 1,732 63.6 3.4 1,507 87.0 2.9arizona 730,845 18,912 2.6 17,024 90.0 2.3 12,045 70.8 1.6arkansas 470,030 8,646 1.8 8,594 99.4 1.8 7,117 82.8 1.5california 5,500,200 58,136 1.1 48,315 83.1 0.9 33,535 69.4 0.6colorado 435,120 16,643 3.8 12,211 73.4 2.8 9,993 81.8 2.3connecticut 395,380 5,548 1.4 4,832 87.1 1.2 3,028 62.7 0.8delaware 100,940 902 0.9 898 99.6 0.9 821 91.4 0.8district of columbia 93,635 1,071 1.1 902 84.2 1.0 483 53.5 0.5florida 2,441,300 49,546 2.0 47,127 95.1 1.9 32,683 69.4 1.3georgia 1,283,830 33,467 2.6 28,197 84.3 2.2 18,615 66.0 1.4hawaii 131,295 1,995 1.5 1,887 94.6 1.4 1,419 75.2 1.1idaho 139,725 5,809 4.2 4,240 73.0 3.0 3,606 85.0 2.6illinois 1,659,750 30,162 1.8 27,066 89.7 1.6 16,024 59.2 1.0indiana 786,020 14,953 1.9 14,861 99.4 1.9 10,905 73.4 1.4iowa 289,280 6,351 2.2 4,067 64.0 1.4 3,990 98.1 1.4kansas 272,595 3,413 1.3 3,374 98.9 1.2 3,102 91.9 1.1kentucky 750,890 11,201 1.5 11,053 98.7 1.5 8,666 78.4 1.2louisiana 786,880 11,818 1.5 11,453 96.9 1.5 7,961 69.5 1.0maine 136,170 4,269 3.1 2,936 68.8 2.2 2,539 86.5 1.9maryland 617,715 8,942 1.4 8,407 94.0 1.4 5,053 60.1 0.8massachusetts 695,875 13,328 1.9 11,889 89.2 1.7 7,688 64.7 1.1michigan 1,182,970 21,754 1.8 15,862 72.9 1.3 11,095 69.9 0.9minnesota 423,115 10,256 2.4 7,274 70.9 1.7 5,961 81.9 1.4mississippi 537,920 15,140 2.8 13,898 91.8 2.6 7,760 55.8 1.4missouri 756,515 13,508 1.8 13,447 99.5 1.8 10,001 74.4 1.3montana 84,510 3,503 4.1 2,853 81.4 3.4 2,155 75.5 2.5nebraska 163,380 4,088 2.5 2,711 66.3 1.7 2,206 81.4 1.4nevada 296,905 7,009 2.4 6,890 98.3 2.3 4,735 68.7 1.6new hampshire 114,330 2,647 2.3 2,129 80.4 1.9 1,745 82.0 1.5new Jersey 1,089,940 13,550 1.2 13,162 97.1 1.2 8,212 62.4 0.8new mexico 272,275 9,017 3.3 7,656 84.9 2.8 5,206 68.0 1.9new york 2,851,185 53,063 1.9 51,724 97.5 1.8 27,815 53.8 1.0north carolina 1,297,505 28,859 2.2 17,021 59.0 1.3 14,494 85.2 1.1north dakota 70,005 1,695 2.4 1,164 68.7 1.7 967 83.1 1.4ohio 1,397,220 21,876 1.6 21,698 99.2 1.6 16,486 76.0 1.2oklahoma 482,350 9,540 2.0 9,407 98.6 2.0 6,592 70.1 1.4oregon 389,020 15,366 3.9 11,083 72.1 2.8 9,274 83.7 2.4Pennsylvania 1,604,370 25,344 1.6 22,441 88.5 1.4 14,536 64.8 0.9rhode island 163,870 2,689 1.6 1,769 65.8 1.1 1,353 76.5 0.8south carolina 681,590 10,063 1.5 9,945 98.8 1.5 6,863 69.0 1.0south dakota 81,935 1,975 2.4 1,406 71.2 1.7 1,146 81.5 1.4tennessee 988,235 15,647 1.6 15,388 98.3 1.6 10,985 71.4 1.1texas 3,571,240 54,547 1.5 48,361 88.7 1.4 32,423 67.0 0.9utah 185,575 7,253 3.9 7,007 96.6 3.8 5,675 81.0 3.1vermont 59,580 1,406 2.4 795 56.5 1.3 646 81.3 1.1virginia 942,620 24,186 2.6 21,249 87.9 2.3 14,454 68.0 1.5washington 569,705 24,510 4.3 15,007 61.2 2.6 11,980 79.8 2.1west virginia 329,530 6,111 1.9 6,039 98.8 1.8 4,493 74.4 1.4wisconsin 571,110 18,136 3.2 10,028 55.3 1.8 7,925 79.0 1.4wyoming 43,570 1,965 4.5 1,601 81.5 3.7 1,455 90.9 3.3

u.s. subtotal 39,769,125 747,809 1.9 645,281 86.3 1.6 448,131 69.4 1.1

american samoa 10,245 32 0.3 30 93.8 0.3 4 13.3 0.0federated states of micronesia NA 7 – 4 57.1 – 2 50.0 –

guam 23,540 221 0.9 218 98.6 0.9 140 64.2 0.6marshall islands NA 49 – 45 91.8 – 6 13.3 – northern mariana islands 17,660 37 0.2 19 51.4 0.1 10 52.6 0.1Palau NA 72 – 28 38.9 – 13 46.4 – Puerto rico3 1,001,030 4,141 0.4 4,141 100.0 0.4 1,453 35.1 0.1virgin islands 28,310 212 0.7 209 98.6 0.7 90 43.1 0.3

insular areas subtotal 1,080,785 4,771 0.4 4,694 98.4 0.4 1,718 36.6 0.2

TaBLE 2target Population and ged® test candidates who tested, completed, and Passed: 2009

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alberta 614,865 2,175 0.4 2,124 97.7 0.3 1,562 73.5 0.3British columbia 675,345 1,435 0.2 1,393 97.1 0.2 1,021 73.3 0.2manitoba 267,745 242 0.1 240 99.2 0.1 170 70.8 0.1new Brunswick 176,660 1,549 0.9 1,517 97.9 0.9 771 50.8 0.4newfoundland and labrador 141,570 209 0.1 199 95.2 0.1 122 61.3 0.1

northwest territories 10,265 26 0.3 18 69.2 0.2 11 61.1 0.1nova scotia 202,770 1,078 0.5 1,050 97.4 0.5 529 50.4 0.3nunavut 11,085 59 0.5 52 88.1 0.5 9 17.3 0.1ontario 2,183,625 5,325 0.2 5,243 98.5 0.2 3,818 72.8 0.2Prince edward island 29,235 398 1.4 388 97.5 1.3 231 59.5 0.8Quebec 1,547,870 233 0.0 233 100.0 0.0 125 53.6 0.0saskatchewan 231,730 1,378 0.6 1,252 90.9 0.5 715 57.1 0.3yukon territory 5,555 30 0.5 29 96.7 0.5 19 65.5 0.3

canada subtotal 6,098,320 14,137 0.2 13,738 97.2 0.2 9,103 66.3 0.1

dantes4 NA 5,371 – 5,333 99.3 – 5,095 95.5 – federal Bureau of Prisons NA 9,556 – 8,881 92.9 – 5,764 64.9 –

international5 NA 2,762 – 2,201 79.7 – 1,318 59.9 – michigan Prisons NA 3,905 – 3,389 86.8 – 1,784 52.6 – va hospitals NA 3 – 2 66.7 – 0 0.0 – inter-regional contracts subtotal na 21,597 – 19,806 91.7 – 13,961 70.5 –

Program total 46,948,230 788,314 1.7 683,519 86.7 1.5 472,913 69.2 1.0

Sources: 2000 U.S. Census,

2006 Canadian Census of Population, and

2009 GED Testing Service® data.

NA = Not available.

– = Not applicable or not possible to calculate.1. Target population totals for the United States and the insular areas include adults 16 years and older, without a high school

diploma and further training or degrees, based on 2000 U.S. Census data. Population totals for Canadian jurisdictions include out-of-school adults 15 years and older, without a high school diploma and further training or degrees, based on 2006 Canadian Census of Population data, as reported by Statistics Canada.

2. Those test-takers who completed testing in all content areas in 2009 may have begun testing in a previous year. A candidate is considered a completer in 2009 only if he or she finished testing in all five content areas by December 31, 2009.

3. The numbers of candidates who tested, completed, and passed were reported by the Puerto Rico GED Administrator, not from the GED Testing Service International Database.

4. DANTES = Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support, including U.S. military personnel and dependent family members tested on military bases within the continental Unites States and overseas.

5. International = Civilians of any nationality who tested through PrometricTM (a division of Sylvan Learning, Thomson ITP) as well as those tested in St. Martin, Cayman Island, Jamaica, and Bermuda, proctored by GED Testing Service staff on an annual basis or by request.

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alabama 797,910 11,735 1.5 11,670 99.4 1.5 7,273 62.3 0.9alaska 51,665 1,955 3.8 1,143 58.5 2.2 1,048 91.7 2.0arizona 730,845 14,778 2.0 13,098 88.6 1.8 10,039 76.6 1.4arkansas 470,030 7,590 1.6 7,545 99.4 1.6 6,400 84.8 1.4california 5,500,200 46,399 0.8 37,881 81.6 0.7 27,885 73.6 0.5colorado 435,120 12,791 2.9 9,006 70.4 2.1 7,847 87.1 1.8connecticut 395,380 4,492 1.1 3,833 85.3 1.0 2,508 65.4 0.6delaware 100,940 864 0.9 860 99.5 0.9 794 92.3 0.8district of columbia 93,635 850 0.9 684 80.5 0.7 410 59.9 0.4florida 2,441,300 40,778 1.7 38,684 94.9 1.6 28,936 74.8 1.2georgia 1,283,830 24,780 1.9 20,050 80.9 1.6 14,749 73.6 1.1hawaii 131,295 1,706 1.3 1,610 94.4 1.2 1,263 78.4 1.0idaho 139,725 4,332 3.1 3,042 70.2 2.2 2,749 90.4 2.0illinois 1,659,750 23,318 1.4 20,714 88.8 1.2 13,548 65.4 0.8indiana 786,020 13,084 1.7 12,992 99.3 1.7 9,820 75.6 1.2iowa 289,280 4,822 1.7 2,999 62.2 1.0 2,974 99.2 1.0kansas 272,595 3,261 1.2 3,222 98.8 1.2 2,985 92.6 1.1kentucky 750,890 9,632 1.3 9,492 98.5 1.3 7,702 81.1 1.0louisiana 786,880 10,386 1.3 10,057 96.8 1.3 7,272 72.3 0.9maine 136,170 3,103 2.3 2,008 64.7 1.5 1,797 89.5 1.3maryland 617,715 7,139 1.2 6,620 92.7 1.1 4,241 64.1 0.7massachusetts 695,875 9,909 1.4 8,594 86.7 1.2 6,171 71.8 0.9michigan 1,182,970 16,113 1.4 11,213 69.6 0.9 8,352 74.5 0.7minnesota 423,115 7,475 1.8 5,082 68.0 1.2 4,455 87.7 1.1mississippi 537,920 11,249 2.1 10,128 90.0 1.9 6,284 62.0 1.2missouri 756,515 12,022 1.6 11,961 99.5 1.6 9,159 76.6 1.2montana 84,510 2,755 3.3 2,170 78.8 2.6 1,760 81.1 2.1nebraska 163,380 2,859 1.7 1,721 60.2 1.1 1,504 87.4 0.9nevada 296,905 6,029 2.0 5,920 98.2 2.0 4,256 71.9 1.4new hampshire 114,330 2,120 1.9 1,697 80.0 1.5 1,458 85.9 1.3new Jersey 1,089,940 10,567 1.0 10,199 96.5 0.9 6,962 68.3 0.6new mexico 272,275 6,871 2.5 5,709 83.1 2.1 4,177 73.2 1.5new york 2,851,185 39,771 1.4 38,483 96.8 1.3 22,745 59.1 0.8north carolina 1,297,505 20,951 1.6 11,276 53.8 0.9 10,224 90.7 0.8north dakota 70,005 1,206 1.7 781 64.8 1.1 688 88.1 1.0ohio 1,397,220 19,429 1.4 19,257 99.1 1.4 14,960 77.7 1.1oklahoma 482,350 8,039 1.7 7,914 98.4 1.6 5,802 73.3 1.2oregon 389,020 11,522 3.0 7,966 69.1 2.0 7,004 87.9 1.8Pennsylvania 1,604,370 19,367 1.2 16,908 87.3 1.1 11,967 70.8 0.7rhode island 163,870 2,261 1.4 1,445 63.9 0.9 1,166 80.7 0.7south carolina 681,590 8,582 1.3 8,489 98.9 1.2 6,047 71.2 0.9south dakota 81,935 1,405 1.7 947 67.4 1.2 835 88.2 1.0tennessee 988,235 12,995 1.3 12,753 98.1 1.3 9,689 76.0 1.0texas 3,571,240 41,689 1.2 36,318 87.1 1.0 26,118 71.9 0.7utah 185,575 6,488 3.5 6,250 96.3 3.4 5,219 83.5 2.8vermont 59,580 1,040 1.7 506 48.7 0.8 425 84.0 0.7virginia 942,620 18,546 2.0 15,948 86.0 1.7 11,938 74.9 1.3washington 569,705 17,953 3.2 10,125 56.4 1.8 8,847 87.4 1.6west virginia 329,530 5,167 1.6 5,100 98.7 1.5 3,930 77.1 1.2wisconsin 571,110 11,459 2.0 5,090 44.4 0.9 4,418 86.8 0.8wyoming 43,570 1,623 3.7 1,311 80.8 3.0 1,230 93.8 2.8

u.s. subtotal 39,769,125 585,257 1.5 498,471 85.2 1.3 370,030 74.2 0.9

american samoa 10,245 26 0.3 24 92.3 0.2 3 12.5 0.0federated states of micronesia NA 7 – 4 57.1 – 2 50.0 –

guam 23,540 178 0.8 175 98.3 0.7 124 70.9 0.5marshall islands NA 43 – 39 90.7 – 5 12.8 –northern mariana islands 17,660 19 0.1 4 21.1 0.0 3 75.0 0.0Palau NA 39 – 2 5.1 – 2 100.0 –Puerto rico 1,001,030 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NAvirgin islands 28,310 147 0.5 145 98.6 0.5 68 46.9 0.2

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alberta 614,865 1,977 0.3 1,931 97.7 0.3 1,454 75.3 0.2British columbia 675,345 1,279 0.2 1,244 97.3 0.2 946 76.0 0.1manitoba 267,745 209 0.1 207 99.0 0.1 148 71.5 0.1new Brunswick 176,660 1,152 0.7 1,121 97.3 0.6 604 53.9 0.3newfoundland and labrador 141,570 169 0.1 161 95.3 0.1 99 61.5 0.1

northwest territories 10,265 25 0.2 18 72.0 0.2 11 61.1 0.1nova scotia 202,770 870 0.4 843 96.9 0.4 456 54.1 0.2nunavut 11,085 42 0.4 35 83.3 0.3 7 20.0 0.1ontario 2,183,625 4,711 0.2 4,631 98.3 0.2 3,491 75.4 0.2Prince edward island 29,235 320 1.1 311 97.2 1.1 198 63.7 0.7Quebec 1,547,870 225 0.0 225 100.0 0.0 122 54.2 0.0saskatchewan 231,730 1,094 0.5 978 89.4 0.4 587 60.0 0.3yukon territory 5,555 27 0.5 26 96.3 0.5 18 69.2 0.3

canada subtotal 6,098,320 12,100 0.2 11,731 97.0 0.2 8,141 69.4 0.1

dantes5 NA 5,018 – 4,980 99.2 – 4,799 96.4 –federal Bureau of Prisons NA 7,160 – 6,550 91.5 – 4,450 67.9 –international6 NA 2,184 – 1,658 75.9 – 1,048 63.2 –michigan Prisons NA 2,206 – 1,809 82.0 – 1,000 55.3 –va hospitals NA 2 – 1 50.0 – 0 0.0 –

inter-regional contracts subtotal na 16,570 – 14,998 90.5 – 11,297 75.3 –

Program total 46,948,230 614,386 1.3* 525,593 85.5 1.1* 389,675 74.1 0.8*

Source: 2009 GED Testing Service® data.

NA = Not available.

– = Not applicable or not possible to calculate.

* = Percentage calculated by not including Puerto Rico data.1. Target Population totals for the United States and the insular areas include adults 16 years and older, without a high school

diploma and further training or degrees, based on 2000 U.S. Census data. Target Population totals for Canadian jurisdictions include out-of-school adults 15 years and older, without a high school diploma and further training or degrees, based on 2006 Canadian Census of Population data, as reported by Statistics Canada.

2. First-time candidates refers to candidates who took the 2002 Series GED Test for the first time in the report year and who had never tested in previous years.

3. Completers Among First-Time Candidates refers to first-time candidates (see definition above) who completed the GED Test.4. Passers Among First-Time Candidates refers to first-time candidates (see definition above) who completed and passed the GED

Test.5. DANTES = Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support, including U.S. military personnel and dependent family

members tested on military bases within the continental Unites States and overseas.6. International = Civilians of any nationality who tested through PrometricTM (a division of Sylvan Learning, Thomson ITP)

as well as those tested in St. Martin, the Cayman Islands, and Bermuda, proctored by GEDTS staff on an annual basis or by request.

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17 Candidates could select as many reasons as applied, so reasons do not sum to 100 percent.

ethnicityIn 2009, 50.2 percent of all candidates with indicated ethnicity were white, 24.7 percent African American, 20.1 percent Hispanic, 2.5 percent American Indian/Alaska Native, 1.8 percent Asian, and 0.7 percent Pacific Islander/Hawaiian. Although these percent-ages also reflect the ethnic distribution for all U.S. candidates, the distributions in the insular areas and inter-regional contracts, as well as across U.S. juris-dictions, varied. For example, although white candi-dates represented approximately half of candidates in the United States at the national level, a non-white ethnic group had the highest percentage of candi-dates in the District of Columbia (DC) and seven states. In seven U.S. jurisdictions, African Americans (in DC, Maryland, New Jersey, and New York) or Hispanics (in California, New Mexico, and Texas) represented the highest percentage of candidates. In Hawaii and six insular areas, Pacific Islanders/Hawaiians represented the majority of candidates (see Appendix D for ethnicity statistics by jurisdiction in 2009).

highest grade completedIn 2009, 71.1 percent of all candidates completed at least 10th grade; specifically, 27.9 percent had com-pleted 10th grade, 34.5 percent had completed 11th grade, and 8.7 percent had completed 12th grade (see Appendix E for highest grade completed statistics by jurisdiction). Candidates most often reported completing 11th grade. Only 10.7 percent of candidates reported completing 8th grade or lower.

years out of schoolCalculations for years out of school were based on the last year the candidate attended school and the current report year. Of all candidates tested in 2009, 82.5 percent reported their last year in school, on average. Results of years out of school by jurisdiction are presented in Appendix F and should be inter-preted with caution in some jurisdictions in which response rates are low.

Overall, 27.0 percent of candidates indicated that they had been out of school for one year (16.1 percent) or less than one year (10.9 percent); both percentages decreased slightly from 2008; how-ever, 28.8 percent of candidates waited more than 10 years before taking the GED Test. North Carolinian and Micronesian candidates reported

being out of school for approximately 10 years on average. The overall average number of years out of school before testing was approximately eight years (standard deviation=9.4). The averages among candidates in the Federal Bureau of Prisons (16.9 years) and Michigan prisons (13.4 years) were nearly double the overall average. DANTES candi-dates and international candidates had left school the most recently (3.9 years and 3.3 years, respectively, on average).

reasons for taking the ged testReasons for taking the GED Test were divided into six categories: educational, military, employ-ment related, social, personal, and other reasons. Candidates may have reported more than one reason for taking the GED Test.17 This report gives equal weight to all responses; however, in reality, some response categories may have been more important to the candidate than others, a distinction the data do not capture.

Educational reasons were the most prevalent reasons for taking the GED Test (see Appendices G1 and G2 for reasons for taking the GED Test, by jurisdiction). In the United States, 62.8 percent of candidates in 2009 indicated that they tested for educational rea-sons. More U.S. candidates were interested in attend-ing a two-year college (29.6 percent) than a technical or trade program (24.2 percent) or a four-year col-lege (20.4 percent). More than half of U.S. candidates (51.7 percent) indicated they tested for personal rea-sons, such as personal satisfaction or being a positive role model. Approximately half (50.4 percent) identi-fied employment reasons as their reason for testing (primarily to get a better job, with 39.6 percent).

Although the top three reasons were the same out-side the United States, they did not follow the same order. Employment reasons were more prevalent than personal reasons in insular areas. Personal reasons, especially personal satisfaction, were more frequent than educational or employment reasons for candidates testing under inter-regional contracts. Percentages for insular areas for educational, employ-ment, and personal reasons were 60.1, 52.8, and 45.9 percent, respectively, and corresponding per-centages for candidates testing under inter-regional contracts were 47.1, 40.2, and 59.6 percent. Data were not collected from Canadian candidates because of Canadian privacy laws.

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CaNDIDaTES WHO TOOK SPaNISH- aND FRENCH-LaNGUaGE VERSIONS aND SPECIaL EDITIONS

spanish- and french-language versionsIn addition to the English-language version of the GED Test, GED Testing Service also publishes the GED Test in Spanish and French. Candidates who tested in one or more of the five content areas of the GED Test were classified into language versions based on the predominant language and given the number of times they tested in each content area: that is, the language in which they tested most often across the content areas. Appendix H presents the volume of candidates who took the English-, Spanish-, and French-language GED Tests for each jurisdiction. In 2009, 30,493 candidates took the Spanish-language GED Test, and 944 candidates took the French-language GED Test.

The jurisdictions with the largest volume of Spanish-language test-takers in 2009 were California (5,543), Texas (3,997), Puerto Rico (3,867), New York (2,423), Illinois (2,187), Oregon (1,089), and Colorado (1,048). These seven jurisdictions accounted for approximately two-thirds (66.1 percent) of the can-didates who tested using the Spanish-language GED Test. California had the largest testing volume for the Spanish-language GED Test from 2007 to 2009. New Brunswick, New York, and Quebec had the largest number of candidates who used the French-language GED Test (311, 267, and 196, respectively), amount-ing to 82.0 percent of the total candidates testing with the French-language GED Test.

audiocassette, Braille, and large-Print editionsAudiocassette and Braille editions of the GED Test are available to candidates upon request and are approved for such test accommodations. Candidates who want to use the large-print edition of the GED Test do not need approval, as GED Testing Service does not consider taking this version an accommoda-tion. As with the language versions, candidates who tested in one or more of the five content areas of the GED Test in a standard edition or an audiocassette, Braille, or large-print edition were classified based on the predominant edition of the tests they took: that is, the edition of the majority of the content areas (Appendix I presents the volume of special editions taken by candidates for each jurisdiction). In 2009, the audiocassette edition of the GED Test was

used foremost by candidates in the United States. Candidates in New York alone accounted for 24.8 percent of the total candidates who tested pre-dominantly using the audiocassette edition. The Braille edition of the GED Test was rarely used across jurisdictions. Twenty-one candidates used the Braille editions in the United States, which account-ed for 100 percent of candidates who tested with Braille. Only three states—New York, Texas, and Washington— tested more than one candidate who used the Braille edition. Together, these three states accounted for 57.1 percent of the total candidates who tested predominantly using the Braille edition. The top six jurisdictions with the largest numbers of candidates who tested using predominantly the large-print edition were Ontario (105), New York (103), Texas (90), Virginia (72), Michigan prisons (59), and Georgia (58). Candidates in these six jurisdictions amounted to 47.8 percent of the candidates who tested predominantly using the large-print edition in 2009.

CaNDIDaTE PERFORMaNCE ON THE GED TEST

This section reports on the current year test per-formance of those candidates who tested in one or more of the five content areas of the GED Test in 2009, regardless of whether they completed testing in all five content areas or passed the GED Test. If can-didates tested more than once in a content area(s), their best standard score in the current report year was used in the analyses. Appendices J1 and J2 pres-ent test score statistics and percentages that meet the minimum standard score requirement in each content area for all jurisdictions.

For all candidates who tested in 2009, the average percentage of candidates who achieved their jurisdic-tion’s minimum standard score in each content area (410 in the United States18

and 450 in Canada) was higher than 90 percent, except in the Mathematics and Language Arts, Writing content areas. Fewer can-didates (81.6 and 88.8 percent, respectively) scored high enough to meet the minimum standard score in Mathematics and Language Arts, Writing.

For all 2009 candidates, the average Language Arts, Reading, standard score of 527 was the highest of the five content areas. The lowest average stan-dard score, 469, was observed for Mathematics. The median standard score, which indicates the score

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at which half of the candidates scored either higher or lower, was highest for Science (520) and low-est for Language Arts, Writing, and Mathematics (470). The median standard scores for Social Studies and Language Arts, Reading, were both 500 (see Appendices J1 and J2 for standard deviations). Language Arts, Reading, also had the highest stan-

dard deviation (105) of all content areas, which indicated that the scores have a higher degree of variation than the scores from the other content areas. The standard deviations of the other four content area standard scores ranged from 78 (for Mathematics) to 86 (for Science). The variability in GED Test performance is shown in Figure 4.

FIGURE 4standard score distributions for all ged® test candidates,1 by content area: 2009

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19 From this point on, the terms GED Test candidate, GED Test completer, and GED Test passer will be referred to as candidate, completer, and passer, respectively.

20 In Kansas and South Dakota, the minimum score requirement in each content area was 420 and 450, respectively, in 2009.21 In Puerto Rico the total score requirement is 2,700 for the Spanish-language GED Test and 2,500 for the English-language GED

Test.

In 2009, 69.2 percent of GED Test completers19 (472,913 adults) passed the GED Test by earn-ing an average standard score of 450 or higher in

the five content areas (equivalent to a standard score total of 2,250 or higher), and earning a minimum score of 410 in each individual content area if they tested in the United States20 and the insular areas21 or 450 if they tested in Canada. The 2009 overall

pass rate is consistent with pass rates in general in the current series. The average pass rate across the current series was approximately 70.3 percent (see Appendix V).

Figure 5 presents the percentage of U.S. and Canadian adults without a high school credential who passed the GED Test. The average percentage

FIGURE 5Percentage of u.s. and canadian adults without a high school credential who Passed the ged® test, by state or Province/territory: 2009

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of the target population who passed the GED Test was 1.1 percent across the United States. In the United States, the percentages of the target popula-tion who passed the GED Test were highest in the Northwestern states. Utah and Wyoming had the highest percentages of the target population passing the GED Test (more than 3.0 percent), followed by Alaska, Idaho, Montana, and Oregon. In Canada, the percentage of the target population who passed the GED Test was less than 1.0 percent in each province or territory.

Regional data contribute to the picture of com-pleters and passers beyond issues of target popula-tion. When all jurisdictions are grouped into regions (see Figure 6), the results allow for geographic comparisons of candidates who complete and pass the GED Test. More than three-fourths of completers (78.1 percent) came from three large regions in 2009: the Southern, Western, and Midwestern U.S. regions. In the United States, the Northeastern and Southern regions had the highest completion rates (91.7 per-cent and 89.6 percent, respectively). The Southern

FIGURE 6GED® Test Passers, by Jurisdictional Group1: 2009

Source: 2009 GED Testing Service® data.1 United States regional classification from the Census Bureau. The U.S. Northeastern region is made up of: CT, ME, MA, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, and VT. The

U.S. Midwestern region is made up of: IL, IN, IA, KS, MI, MN, MO, NE, ND, OH, SD, and WI. The U.S. Southern region is made up of: AL, AR, DE, DC, FL, GA, KY, LA, MD, MS, NC, OK, SC, TN, TX, VA, and WV. The U.S. Western region is made up of: AK, AZ, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, NM, OR, UT, WA, and WY.

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Program Total 788,314 100.0 683,519 100.0 472,913 69.2

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region had the highest number of completers (approximately two-fifths), and the Western region had the next highest number of completers. Western and Midwestern regions had the highest pass rates (74.6 and 73.0 percent, respectively). The smallest number of completers and passers in the United States was in the Northeastern region.

The Canadian completion rate was high (97.2 per-cent). Canadian candidates represented a small por-tion of completers and passers within the entire program, yet the pass rate for Canadian completers was lower (66.3 percent), likely because of the high-er minimum score requirements. Candidates testing under inter-regional contracts had a completion rate of 91.7 percent and a pass rate of 70.5 percent.

Figures 7 and 8 (see pages 22 and 23) present the 2009 pass rates for jurisdictions within the United States and Canada, respectively. Pass rates exceed-ing 90 percent were observed in the following states: Iowa (98.1 percent), Kansas (91.9 percent), Delaware (91.4 percent), and Wyoming (90.9 percent). All four states required passing the Official GED Practice Tests before testing. Canadian provinces in which candidates exceeded the Canadian average pass rate were Alberta (73.5 percent), British Columbia (73.3 percent), Ontario (72.8 percent), and Manitoba (70.8 percent).

Comparisons must be interpreted with caution because the pass rate may relate to underlying differ-ences in candidate characteristics, candidate prepa-ration, or jurisdictional and testing center program characteristics and policies. In fact, jurisdictional and testing center policies often include a policy to ensure candidates’ preparedness to take the GED Test. Of the eight jurisdictions with the highest pass rates in the United States (85.0 percent or higher), six required their candidates to pass the Official GED Practice Tests and two required at least some instruc-tion before initial testing (see Table 2 and Appendix A). These six states set the minimum score require-ment for the Official GED Practice Tests before testing, and four of them offered the Official GED Practice Tests free of charge. Four of these states required a waiting period before retesting for those who did not pass, and three of the four also required instruction or passing a standardized assessment as remediation before retesting.

Appendix K depicts the changes from 2008 to 2009 in the number of candidates in each jurisdiction who tested in at least one content area of the GED Test, the percentage of candidates who completed the GED Test, and the percentage who passed the GED

Test. In 2008, GED Testing Service witnessed the largest increase in the number of testing candidates since 2003, a 7 percent increase. From 2008 to 2009, the total number of candidates tested increased by an additional 1.5 percent; the minor increase may be related in part to the weakened state of the economy since 2008. The average completion rates in 2009 stayed about the same as 2008; however, the average pass rate decreased 3 percentage points from 2008 to 2009.

On average, the pass rate in the United States decreased by 3 percentage points, with all states and the District of Columbia exhibiting a decrease, except Rhode Island and West Virginia, which increased by 6 percentage points and 1 percentage point, respec-tively. However, despite the overall loss in pass rates, the pass rates in Canada and the insular areas both increased by 3 percentage points. Increases and decreases in the pass rate may reflect a variety of situations, such as increases in age and time since leaving school, inadequate test preparation activities, and changing jurisdictional requirements.

GED TEST PaSSER DEMOGRaPHICS

ageThe average age of passers across all jurisdictions was 24.7 years (standard deviation=8.7), and has remained between 24 and 25 years within the opera-tion of the current test series (see Appendix L for age statistics for passers in all jurisdictions in 2009 and Appendix W for age statistics since 2002). The aver-age ages of passers in the United States and insular areas were 24.5 and 23.2 years (standard deviation = 8.6 and 6.8), respectively. The average ages of pass-ers in Canada and among inter-regional contracts were higher, at 31.3 years and 27.0 years (standard deviation=10.9 and 9.2), respectively, and corre-sponded with higher average ages for all candidates tested in those jurisdictional groupings.

Percentages of 16- to 18-year-old passers in 2009 decreased since 2008 in both the United States and Canada. In the United States, 31.0 percent of all pass-ers were aged 16 to 18 in 2009, compared with 34.0 percent in 2008. In Canada, where the minimum age for testing was at least 18 years old in 12 of the 13 provinces/territories, 3.3 percent of passers were aged 16 to 18 in 2009, compared with 4.3 percent in 2008.

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Connecticut (3,028)Massachusetts (7,688)Pennsylvania (14,536)

Georgia (18,615)Texas (32,423)

New Mexico (5,206)Virginia (14,454)Nevada (4,735)

South Carolina (6,863)California (33,535)

Florida (32,683)Louisiana (7,961)

Michigan (11,095)Oklahoma (6,592)

Arizona (12,045)Tennessee (10,985)

Indiana (10,905)Missouri (10,001)

West Virginia (4,493)Hawaii (1,419)

Montana (2,155)Ohio (16,486)

Rhode Island (1,353)Kentucky (8,666)

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Colorado (9,993)Minnesota (5,961)

New Hampshire (1,745)Arkansas (7,117)

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Idaho (3,606)North Carolina (14,494)

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36.6 percent of the Canadian passers. Candidates aged 50 years and older accounted for 2.1 percent of U.S. passers, which is comparable with the percent-ages of U.S. candidates tested within that age group (2.9 percent). In Canada, 7.3 percent of the passers were aged 50 and older, which is comparable with the percentage of Canadian candidates in that age group (7.8 percent).

genderThe majority of passers, like the candidates, were male (60.3 percent). Appendix M presents gender statistics for passers for all jurisdictions. Overall, the percentages of male and female passers have remained steady since 2002. Differences among the overall percentages were observed in many jurisdic-tions, but differences more than 25 percentage points among the overall percentages were seen primarily in the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Michigan prisons, and DANTES, jurisdictions in which most candidates were male.

Percentages of female passers were at or above 50 percent in a few of the jurisdictions with the lowest testing volumes, including Marshall Islands (50.0 percent female), Northern Mariana Islands (50.0 percent), Palau (50.0 percent), Yukon Territory (50.0 percent), Nunavut (55.6 percent), and Quebec (59.2 percent). In contrast, male passers represented approximately nine of every 10 passers testing under DANTES programs (88.2 percent), in Federal Bureau of Prisons (87.7 percent), and in Michigan prisons (94.4 percent), which corresponded with large proportions of male candidates in those three jurisdictions.

ethnicityThe ethnic distribution of all passers in 2009 was 59.2 percent white, 18.5 percent African American, 17.8 percent Hispanic, 2.1 percent American Indian/Alaska Native, 1.7 percent Asian, and 0.7 percent Pacific Islander/Hawaiian (see Appendix N for eth-nicity statistics for passers for all jurisdictions). All these percentages were similar to 2008 and have

FIGURE 8GED® Test Pass Rates, by Canadian Province/Territory: 2009

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remained stable relative to the number of tested can-didates in each ethnic group.

The jurisdictions with the highest percentages of passers for a specific ethnic group were in line with jurisdictions in which those specific ethnic groups were highly represented in the population tested. For example, among individual jurisdictions, the highest percentages of white passers were in New Hampshire (91.6 percent) and Maine (89.6 percent). The highest percentages of African-American pass-ers were in DC (74.6 percent) and the Virgin Islands (85.4 percent). In inter-regional contracts, the high-est percentages of passers were African American in the Federal Bureau of Prisons (49.9 percent) and Michigan prisons (54.5 percent).

The highest percentages of Hispanic passers were in New Mexico (52.7 percent), California (47.1 per-cent), and Texas (43.2 percent). Although American Indians/Alaska Natives did not constitute the larg-est percentage of passers in any jurisdiction, they represented more than 20 percent of the passers in Alaska, South Dakota, and North Dakota. Pacific Islanders/Hawaiians constituted the largest percent-age of passers in Palau (100 percent), Marshall Islands (83.3 percent), Guam (70.3 percent), Northern Mariana Islands (70.0 percent), and Hawaii (36.5 percent).

highest grade completedIn 2009, 73.7 percent of all passers completed 10th grade or higher (see Appendix O for highest grade completed statistics for passers in all jurisdictions). This result included 36.8 percent who completed 11th grade and 8.4 percent who completed 12th grade. Jurisdictions with the top five percentages of passers who completed the 11th or 12th grade included California (65.5 percent), Utah (63.0 per-cent), Northern Mariana Islands (60.0 percent), Minnesota (59.2 percent), and Palau (58.3 percent).

years out of schoolOf all passers, 85.5 percent reported their last year in school.22 Although the average years out of school for passers was 7.3 years (standard deviation=8.7)

and ranged from 2.7 years for international passers to 16.1 years for Federal Bureau of Prisons passers, the statistic itself does not present a complete picture of the variability in years out of school. In fact, the GED testing program reaches adults in need of high school credentials at varying years of separation from their school experience. Approximately 3 out of 10 passers reported being out of school for one year (17.7 percent) or less than one year (12.3 percent).

For 25.4 percent of passers, more than 10 years elapsed from the time they left school until they passed the GED Test. Among U.S. states, the high-est percentages of passers who were out of school for more than 10 years were recorded in California (31.8 percent), North Carolina (31.4 percent), Tennessee (30.5 percent), Wisconsin (29.3 percent), Ohio (29.1 percent), and Texas (28.6 percent). Passers who were out of school for more than 20 years represented 9.2 percent of all passers. The highest percentages of passers out of school for more than 20 years were observed in the Federal Bureau of Prisons (26.8 percent) and Michigan pris-ons (17.8 percent).

reasons for testingApproximately 90.9 percent of all passers completed the survey question on reasons for testing.23 As with the entire population of candidates, an educational reason was the most frequently selected reason for testing by passers in 2009 (see Appendices Q1 and Q2). Among the passers who indicated reasons for testing, 64.5 percent indicated at least one educa-tional reason. Intentions for furthering education var-ied greatly across jurisdictions and ranged from 36.9 percent for DANTES candidates to 99.3 percent for Illinois candidates. In terms of specific educational reasons, 31.1 percent o passers indicated an inter-est in attending a two-year college and 22.9 percent of passers were interested in attending a four-year college. Approximately 24.5 percent of passers were interested in attending a technical or trade program. Approximately 54.7 percent and 49.6 percent of pass-ers cited personal reasons and employment reasons, respectively, with 39.0 percent indicating that they would like to get a better job upon earning a GED credential.

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24 In Kansas and South Dakota, the minimum score requirement in each content area was 420 and 450, respectively, in 2009.

PaSSER PERFORMaNCE ON THE GED TEST

This section reports the test performance of those candidates who completed and passed the GED Test. Appendices R1 and R2 present test score statistics for passers in all jurisdictions. Jurisdictional and test-ing center policies, such as requiring candidates to pass the Official GED Practice Tests before testing, may influence GED Test scores reported in this sec-tion. Also, passers in Canada were required to earn a minimum standard score of 450 in each of the five content areas, while passers in the United States were required to earn a minimum standard score of 41024 in each content area; both countries require an average standard score of 450 or higher (equivalent to a standard score total of 2,250 or higher) across the five content areas. Therefore, U.S. passers with one or more standard scores lower than 450 needed to earn higher scores in the other content area(s) to meet the minimum average standard score of 450.

Distributions of standard scores within the five con-tent areas for U.S. and Canadian passers are shown in Figures 9 and 10, respectively. For U.S. passers, the Mathematics and Language Arts, Writing content areas were the most difficult, as shown by a higher percentage of passers who earned standard scores in the lower range of the score distributions for those content areas. For Canadian passers, Mathematics was the most difficult content area in terms of stan-dard scores. For Language Arts, Reading, there was a higher percentage of both U.S. and Canadian passers who earned a standard score of 600 or higher, com-pared with all other content areas. In Canada, the distribution of passers’ standard scores was relatively even across all ranges for Language Arts, Reading, a pattern that also was exhibited in previous years. This indicates that performance in Language Arts, Reading, varied greatly among candidates.

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Appendices R1 and R2 present GED Test standard score statistics for each jurisdiction. Individual juris-dictions may find these data useful for instructional purposes. The GED Test average standard score across the five content areas was 527 (standard devi-ation=58); a score of 530 or higher corresponds with a score achievable by the estimated top 33 percent of U.S. graduating high school seniors (see Table 1). Mathematics and Language Arts, Writing, were the two most difficult content areas, as indicated by the average standard scores: 497 (standard deviation=65) and 501 (standard deviation=70), respectively. Average standard scores in all other content areas ranged from 532 (standard deviation=72) in Social Studies to 556 (standard deviation=98) in Language Arts, Reading. Among the jurisdictional groups, the mean standard scores for passers in Canada for each content area and for the GED Test overall were higher than those for passers in other jurisdictional groups. This difference likely reflects the higher pass-ing scores required in Canada.

ged test Pass rates by age, gender, and ethnicityAs in 2008, GED Testing Service disaggregated 2009 pass rates for three groups of candidates: age, gen-der, and ethnic group. The same groupings were used as shown in Appendices L, M, and N. All groups discussed below had a cell size of at least 100 completers per group to ensure meaningful com-parisons. Analyses did not control for socioeconomic status, educational background, or other variables commonly used in educational research, and they should be interpreted with caution accordingly.

Age. Appendix S presents GED Test pass rates by age group. Candidates who were 16 to 18 years old had the highest pass rate (77.5 percent) compared with other age groups. The lowest pass rate (46.3 percent) was observed for candidates aged 60 and older. A linear trend of pass rates across age groups was displayed, which indicated that generally it would be more difficult to pass the GED Test as age increases. Even though this trend of decreasing pass rates was steady at a national or program-wide level, there was much variability within jurisdictions. A closer look at U.S. states (sample sizes in other countries were too small to allow for meaningful analysis) reveals variety in pass rates by age group.

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In 12 states, 25- to 29-year old candidates tended to pass at a higher rate than the 19- to 24-year-old group. In some states, at least, pass rates tended to increase for adults in their late 20s. Candidates in five states showed at least one increase across groups aged 25 to 39, and in four of those states, adults who were 35 to 39 years old passed at higher rates than 30- to 34-year-old candidates. In nine states, candi-dates in their 50s passed at higher rates than those in their 40s.

Gender. Appendix T presents GED Test pass rates by gender. The pass rate for male candidates was 71.9 percent for the entire program, which was higher than that for female candidates (65.6 percent). In the United States and Canada, the pass rates for male candidates were 6.5 and 10.4 percentage points higher, respectively, than those for female candi-dates. The pass rate difference between males and females was 4.7 percent in the insular areas. In the inter-regional contracts, the pass rates among male and female candidates were much closer, with a difference of less than one percentage point. Iowa, Delaware, Kansas, and Wyoming had the highest pass rates (higher than 90 percent) for male candi-dates, and Iowa and Kansas had the highest pass rates for female candidates. In the United States, pass rates for female candidates were higher than those for male candidates in six states (Arkansas, Hawaii, Kansas, Maine, North Dakota, and West Virginia). In these nine states, the pass rate was at least 74.2 per-cent, irrespective of gender.

Ethnicity. Appendix U presents GED Test pass rates by ethnicity. Overall, disaggregated pass rates by ethnicity show that white candidates had the high-est pass rate (80.6 percent) among all ethnic groups, while African American candidates had the lowest pass rate (52.2 percent). These differences in pass rates are consistent with data from other large-scale assessment programs, such as ACT, California High School Exit Examination, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), or SAT. The ranges between the highest and lowest pass rates for differ-ent ethnicities are more than 15 percentage points in all U.S. and inter-regional jurisdictional groups with a cell size of at least 100, except for 9 jurisdic-tions (Alaska, Delaware, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Oregon, Wyoming, and DANTES). Some jurisdictions exhibited an even narrower range between highest and lowest pass rates, such as Iowa (4.6 percentage points), DANTES (7.0 percentage points), Wyoming (7.4 percentage points), and Alaska (8.9 percent-age points). In Arkansas, the American Indian ethnic group had the highest pass rate (87.8 percent).

Disaggregated results do not indicate the pres-ence of bias against groups of individual test-takers. GED Testing Service conducted differential item functioning (DIF) analyses and a bias review on all operational test forms of the current series of the English-language GED Test forms. A majority of expert reviewers found that 2,627 items of 2,640 items reviewed exhibited no evidence of bias. For further information, please see Technical Manual: 2002 Series GED Tests (GED Testing Service, 2009, available at www.GEDtest.org). Given that test forms preclude bias against any particular group, the dif-ferent pass rates between various age, gender, and ethnicity groups likely result from differences in the actual academic skill levels of the candidates.

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completer, and passer, respectively.

TESTING VOLUME

Since 1943, more than 17 million individuals have passed the GED Test. Trend data became available beginning in 1949 (see Appendices

V, W, and X for all candidates and passers). Since all U.S. jurisdictions had adopted GED testing by 1973, the number of candidates who tested increased through the beginning of the 1978 test series and has remained relatively stable during the past 30 years. Figure 11 presents trends in the numbers of candidates who tested, completed, and passed the GED Test from 2002 to 2009. The highest number of candidates for the current series tested in 2009 (788,314 candidates). The year 2009 also saw the highest number of completers (683,519) for the cur-rent series. Test-taking and completion numbers have increased since 200325 by 12.1 and 14.6 per-cent, respectively. The number of passers also has increased since 2003, by 14.8 percent, but the num-ber of passers varies less widely and has not always

kept pace with the more parallel test-taking and completion rates.

Figure 12 (see page 30) graphically represents the numbers of test-takers, completers, and passers for both first-time and repeat GED Test candidates.26 From 2003 to 2005, the numbers of first-time test-takers remained essentially the same, but from 2006 onward, more candidates tested for the first time, and their completion and pass rates increased through 2008.

Among repeat candidates, numbers of test-takers and completers have increased since 2003, but the pass rate increased at a smaller rate. The gap between the number of repeat test-takers and repeat completers has widened slightly since 2003, even as numbers in both groups increased. Although it is too early to determine the trend since 2006, it is possible that even as first-time test-takers have made gains in completing and passing the GED Test, the gap in these rates for repeat test-takers actually may be widening.

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Overall, the average volume of testing for the 2003–09 administrations of the current GED Test series was only approximately 87 percent of the average volume observed in the 1994–2000 adminis-trations of the 1988 Series GED Test (see Appendix V; 2001 and 2002 were excluded from this analysis because of the anomalous effect of the new test series on testing volume referenced above). Even though it is unclear what or whether societal or juris-dictional changes correlated with testing volume, it is known that the method of collecting GED testing program data changed in 2002. Prior to 2002, juris-dictions forwarded summaries of their GED testing program data directly to GED Testing Service, and candidates who tested across multiple jurisdictions could have been counted multiple times. In 2002 and onward, individual candidate demographic and test information was uploaded to a centralized database and then summarized by GED Testing Service. This procedural change may have contributed to at least some of the decline in recorded testing volume.

Since the introduction of the current test series, in general, there have been gradual increases each year in the number of candidates who tested and the number of candidates who completed the GED Test. In 2009, the number of candidates who tested increased by approximately 1.5 percent compared with 2008, when the largest increase (7 percent) occurred since 2003. Multiple circumstances, such as the national economy or local recruiting initia-tives, may contribute to the rise in testing candidates, which was maintained in 2009. In 2009, the pass rate decreased by 3.4 percentage points compared with the pass rate in 2008. In 2009, 69.2 percent of com-pleters passed the GED Test, compared with 72.6 percent in 2008. Across the current test series, however, the pass rate trend has been steady.

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DEMOGRaPHICS

Appendix W presents trends in demographics and test scores for candidates and passers since 2002. In terms of candidate demographics, the percentages of male and female candidates remained relatively unchanged from 2002 to 2009, and the ethnic distributions of can-didates have remained relatively stable during the life of the current series. The average age of all candidates remained relatively unchanged at 25 years old from the mid 1990s until 2009, when it increased to nearly 26 years. The average age of all candidates ranged from 25 to 27 years during the administration of the 1978 and 1988 Series GED Test, and 25 to 30 years during the administration of the 1942 Series GED Test. The percentage of candidates aged 16 to 18 years has decreased from 31.3 percent to 26.3 percent since 2002. This decrease may be associated with changes in jurisdictional policies involving age of compulsory attendance or minimum age to be eligible to take the GED Test.27 The percentage of candidates aged 19 to 24 has fluctuated between 34 and 37 percent. Passers in the youngest age group have decreased from 36.3 to 30.1 percent since 2002, and the percentage of 19- to 24-year-old passers has fluctuated from 35 to 38 percent during the same time period. Since the testing program’s inception, the average highest grade com-pleted has remained stable at 10th grade.

Two primary reasons for taking the GED Test during the years have been further education and employ-ment. Beginning in the 1990s, the percentage of candidates who indicated they were planning fur-ther study generally has increased and has varied between 57 percent and 68 percent (see Appendix V). In 2009, the percentage of candidates who indi-cated they planned to further their education was 62.4 percent, similar to the rate in 2002. Half of can-didates (50.1 percent) who tested in 2009 indicated they tested for employment reasons (see Appendix W), primarily to get a better job (see Appendices G1 and G2 for breakdown). Similarly, 49.6 percent of passers indicated they tested for employment reasons in 2009 (see Appendix W); 64.5 percent of passers indicated they tested for educational reasons, which was a slight decrease from 62.7 percent since 2002 (see Appendix W).

SPaNISH- aND FRENCH-LaNGUaGE VERSIONS

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Rico were required to finish testing in all five content areas, plus take an English as a Second Language (ESL) test in two consecutive days, and they had only one year to repeat a failed test before their test scores expired. In 2009, there was a slight increase in testing volume for both the Spanish- and French-language GED Test, which corresponded with the increase in the entire candidate population and with ongoing increases in immigrant populations in recent years.

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GED TESTING SERVICE STaFF(at time of publication)

Nicole M. Chestang, Vice President, Executive Director

Daphne Atkinson, Deputy Executive Director, Information Services and Communications

George Anderson, Program Manager

Adora Beard, Associate Director, Finance and Administration

Martha Bozman, Director, Partner Outreach

Cassandra Brown, Program Manager, Marketing and Public Relations

Amanda Carter, Assistant Director, Test Security and Training

Thia Davis, Program Associate

Carol Ezzelle, Senior Psychometrician

Wanda Fields, Test Specialist, Mathematics

Anne Guison-Dowdy, Research Analyst

Yung-chen Hsu, Psychometrician

Allison Jennings, Project Coordinator

Patricia Jones, Project Manager

Martin Kehe, Deputy Executive Director

Traci Lopez, Executive Assistant

Ruth Mensel, Test Specialist, Social Studies

Raghu Nath, Associate Director, Technology Systems

Margaret Patterson, Director, Research

Usha Paulson, Test Specialist, Science

Kenneth Pendleton, Test Specialist, Mathematics

Chhaya Rao, Test Specialist, Language Arts

J. Carl Setzer, Psychometrician

Wei Song, Assistant Director, Data Management and Research

Vernita Tardy, Project Coordinator

Shreya Thakur, Technology Systems Coordinator

Christopher Turner, Associate Director, Marketing and Public Relations

Krystle Whitaker, Program Associate

Marjorie Wine, Test Specialist, Language Arts

Jizhi Zhang, Research Associate

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UNITED STaTES

alabamaJohn VinesGED AdministratorAlabama Department of Postsecondary EducationGED Testing Program135 South Union StreetMontgomery, AL 36104(334) 293-4571; fax: (334) 293-4575john.vines@dpe.edu

alaskaAmelia J. IutziABE and GED State DirectorAlaska Department of Labor and Workforce DevelopmentDOLWD-ES Division1111 W. 8th StreetPO Box 115509Juneau, AK 99811-5509(907) 465-8714; fax: (907) 465-4186amy.iutzi@alaska.gov

arizonaKaren LierschDirector, Adult EducationState Department of EducationADE–Adult Education, Bin VIR1535 West Jefferson StreetPhoenix, AZ 85007(602) 364-2777; fax: (602) 258-4977karen.liersch@azed.gov

arkansasJanice HanlonGED AdministratorState Department of Workforce Education#3 Capitol MallLuther S. Harden BuildingLittle Rock, AR 72201-1083(501) 682-1976; fax: (501) 682-1982janice.hanlon@arkansas.gov

californiaLily RobertsGED AdministratorCalifornia Department of EducationState GED Office1430 N. Street, Suite 5408Sacramento, CA 95814(916) 445-9438; fax: (916) 319-0967lroberts@cde.ca.gov

coloradoChalmer NaugleGED AdministratorColorado Department of EducationGED Testing Program201 E. Colfax Avenue, Room 100Denver, CO 80203(303) 866-6613; fax: (303) 866-6947naugle_c@cde.state.co.us

connecticutAjit GopalakrishnanGED AdministratorConnecticut Department of Education25 Industrial Park RoadMiddletown, CT 06457(860) 807-2125; fax: (860) 807-2112ajit.gopalakrishnan@ct.gov

delawareMaureen WhelanGED AdministratorDepartment of EducationCollette Education Resource Center35 Commerce Way, Suite #1Dover, DE 11904(302) 857-3342; fax: (302) 739-1318mwhelan@doe.k12.de.us

district of columbiaPhilip PremDasGED AdministratorDC Office of the State Superintendent at the University of the District of Columbia441 4th Street NW, Suite 350 NorthWashington, DC 20001(202) 274-7173; fax: (202) 274-7188ppremdas@udc.edu

floridaTara GoodmanGED AdministratorFlorida Department of EducationBureau of Budget and AccountabilityRoom 634, Turlington Building325 West Gaines StreetTallahassee, FL 32399-0400(850) 245-0449; fax: (850) 245-0990tara.goodman@fldoe.org

georgiaKimberly LeeGED AdministratorTechnical College System of Georgia1800 Century Place NE, Suite 300BAtlanta, GA 30345-4304(404) 679-4959; fax: (404) 679-4911klee@tcsg.org

hawaiiAnnette Young-OgataGED AdministratorHawaii Department of Education475 22nd Avenue, Room 124Honolulu, HI 96816(808) 203-5511; fax: (808) 733-9154annette_young-ogata@notes.k12.hi.us

idahoCheryl EngelGED AdministratorDivision of Professional and Technical Education650 West State Street, Suite 324Boise, ID 83720-0095(208) 334-3216; fax: (208) 334-2365csengel@pte.idaho.gov

illinoisJennifer K. FosterGED AdministratorIllinois Community College Board401 E. Capitol AvenueSpringfield, IL 62701(217) 558-5668; fax: (217) 558-6700jennifer.foster@illinois.gov

indianaTerri BanksGED AdministratorIndiana Department of EducationOffice of Adult EducationGED Testing Program151 West Ohio StreetIndianapolis, IN 46204(317) 234-0205; fax: (317) 232-0855tbanks@doe.state.in.us

iowaHelene GrossmanGED AdministratorIowa Department of Education400 E. 14th StreetDes Moines, IA 50319-0146(515) 281-3640; fax: (515) 281-6544helene.grossman@iowa.gov

kansasCrystal PuderbaughGED AdministratorKansas Board of Regents1000 SW Jackson Street, Suite 520Topeka, KS 66612-1368(785) 291-3191; fax: (785) 296-4526cpuderbaugh@ksbor.org

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kentuckyBrenda J. HeltonGED AdministratorKentucky Adult EducationCouncil on Postsecondary Education1024 Capital Center Drive, Suite 250Frankfort, KY 40601(502) 564-5114, ext. 102; fax: (502) 573-5436bj.helton@ky.gov

louisianaDebi K. FaucetteDirector, Adult Education and TrainingLouisiana Department of EducationClaiborne Building, Room 4-2711201 North Third StreetBaton Rouge, LA 70802(225) 453-2721; fax: (225) 219-4439debi.faucette@la.gov

maineJ. Andrew McMahanGED AdministratorState Department of EducationState House Station #23Augusta, ME 04333-0023(207) 624-6754; fax: (207) 624-6651andy.mcmahan@maine.gov

marylandPerketer TuckerGED AdministratorMaryland Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation1100 North Eutaw StreetBaltimore, MD 21201(410) 767-0538; fax: (410) 225-7206ptucker@dllr.state.md.us

massachusettsRuth DerflerGED AdministratorMassachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education75 Pleasant StreetGED Office, 3rd FloorMalden, MA 02148(781) 338-6625; fax: (781) 338-6604rderfler@doe.mass.edu

michiganBen WilliamsGED AdministratorDepartment of Labor and Economic GrowthBureau of Workforce Transformation and Lifelong Learning201 N. Washington SquareVictor Building, 2nd FloorLansing, MI 48913(517) 373-1692; fax: (517) 335-3461williamsb4@michigan.gov

minnesotaJim ColwellGED AdministratorMinnesota Department of Education1500 Highway 36 WestRoseville, MN 55113(651) 582-8437; fax: (651) 634-8458jim.colwell@state.mn.us

mississippiEloise RichardsonGED AdministratorState Board for Community/Junior Colleges3825 Ridgewood RoadJackson, MS 39211(601) 432-6338; fax: (601) 432-6365eloisejr@sbcjc.cc.ms.us

missouriBill PoteetGED AdministratorState Department of Elementary and Secondary Education205 Jefferson StreetPO Box 480Jefferson City, MO 65102(573) 751-3504; fax: (573) 526-5710bill.poteet@dese.mo.gov

montanaMargaret BowlesGED AdministratorOffice of Public Instruction1300 11th AvenueBox 202501Helena, MT 59620-2501(406) 444-4443; fax: (406) 444-1373mbowles@mt.gov

nebraskaVicki L. BauerDirector, Adult EducationNebraska Department of EducationAdult Education301 Centennial Mall SouthPO Box 94987Lincoln, NE 68509-4987(402) 471-4807; fax: (402) 471-8127vicki.l.bauer@nebraska.gov

nevadaMary Katherine MoenGED AdministratorNevada Department of EducationWorkforce Education755 North Roop Street, Suite 201Carson City, NV 89701(775) 687-7289; fax: (775) 687-8636mkmoen@doe.nv.gov

new hampshireDeborah TaskerGED AdministratorNew Hampshire Department of EducationBureau of Adult EducationDivision of Adult Learning and Rehabilitation21 South Fruit Street, Suite 20Concord, NH 03301(603) 271-6699; fax: (603) 271-1953dtasker@ed.state.nh.us

new JerseyRobert M. BereznyGED AdministratorVocational and Technical, Career andInnovative ProgramsNew Jersey Department of Education100 River View PlazaPO Box 500Trenton, NJ 08625-0500(609) 633-0655; fax: (609) 984-0573robert.berezny@doe.state.nj.us

new mexicoLisa G. SalazarGED AdministratorState Department of Education300 Don Gaspar Avenue, Room 122Santa Fe, NM 87501-2786(505) 827-6502; fax: (505) 827-6616lisa.salazar@state.nm.us

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north carolinaLou Ann ParkerGED AdministratorNorth Carolina Community College System5015 Mail Service CenterRaleigh, NC 27699-5024(919) 807-7137; fax: (919) 807-7164parkerl@nccommunitycolleges.edu

north dakotaValerie FisherGED AdministratorDepartment of Public InstructionAdult Education and LiteracyState Capitol Building600 East Boulevard AvenueBismarck, ND 58505-0440(701) 328-4138; fax: (701) 328-4770vfisher@nd.gov

ohioSharon BowmanGED AdministratorState Department of Education25 South Front Street, Mailstop 106, 1st FloorColumbus, OH 43215-4183(614) 387-0935; fax: (614) 752-9445sharon.bowman@ode.state.oh.us

oklahomaStephanie CurtisGED AdministratorState Department of EducationLifelong Learning Section2500 North Lincoln BoulevardOklahoma City, OK 73105-4599(405) 521-3321; fax: (405) 522-5394stephanie_curtis@sde.state.ok.us

oregonMarque HaegGED AdministratorDepartment of Community Colleges and Workforce Development255 Capitol Street NESalem, OR 97310-1341(503) 947-2446; fax: (503) 378-8434marque.r.haeg@state.or.us

PennsylvaniaAmanda Harrison-PerezGED AdministratorState Department of Education333 Market Street, 12th FloorHarrisburg, PA 17126-0333(717) 772-3739; fax: (717) 783-0583aharrison@state.pa.us

rhode islandDeborah AnthesGED AdministratorDepartment of Elementary and Secondary Education255 Westminster StreetProvidence, RI 02903-3414(401) 222-8949; fax: (401) 222-2823deborah.anthes@ride.ri.gov

south carolinaDavid StoutGED AdministratorSouth Carolina Department of EducationGED Testing Office1429 Senate Street, Suite 402Columbia, SC 29201(803) 734-8347; fax: (803) 734-8336dstout@sde.state.sc.us

south dakotaBill MolseedGED AdministratorDepartment of LaborAdult Education and Literacy–GED Office700 Governors DrivePierre, SD 57501-2291(605) 773-5017; fax: (605) 773-6184bill.molseed@state.sd.us

tennesseeSusan DoughtyGED AdministratorTennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development220 French Landing DriveDivision of Adult EducationNashville, TN 37243-1002(615) 741-7054; fax: (615) 532-4899susan.doughty@tn.us

texasG. Paris-EalyGED AdministratorTexas Education Agency, William B. Travis Building, 1701 North Congress AvenueAustin, TX 78701(512) 463-9292; fax: (512) 305-9493gparis@tea.state.tx.us

utahMurray MeszarosGED AdministratorUtah State Office of Education250 East 500 SouthPO Box 144200Salt Lake City, UT 84114-4200(801) 538-7870; fax: (801) 538-7868murray.meszaros@schools.utah.gov

vermontSharon ParkerGED AdministratorVermont Department of Education120 State StreetMontpelier, VT 05620-0000(802) 828-0077; fax: (802) 828-3146sharon.parker@state.vt.us

virginiaDebbie BergtholdtGED AdministratorVirginia Office of Adult EducationDepartment of Education101 North 14th StreetPO Box 2120Richmond, VA 23218-2120(804) 786-4622; fax: (804) 225-3352debbie.bergtholdt@doe.virginia.gov

washingtonLou SagerGED AdministratorState Board for Community and Technical Colleges1300 Quince Street SEOlympia, WA 98504-2495(360) 704-4321; fax: (360) 704-4419lsager@sbctc.edu

west virginiaDebra KimblerGED AdministratorState Department of Education1900 Kanawha Boulevard EastBuilding 6, Room 250Charleston, WV 25305-0330(304) 558-6315; fax: (304) 558-4874dkimbler@access.k12.wv.us

wisconsinRobert EnghagenGED AdministratorState Department of Public Instruction125 South Webster StreetMadison, WI 53707-7841(608) 267-2275; fax: (608) 267-9275robert.enghagen@dpi.state.wi.us

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american samoaElizabeth HaleckGED AdministratorGovernment of American SamoaPago Pago, AS 96799(684) 633-5772; fax: (684) 633-2106haleckfiliaga@yahoo.com

federated states of micronesiaEmma NelsonGED AdministratorFederated States of Micronesia National GovernmentDepartment of EducationPalikirPohnpei, FM 96941(691) 320-2609; fax: (691) 320-5500nelemma43@yahoo.com

guamGeraldine JamesGED AdministratorGuam Community CollegePO Box 23069Main Postal FacilityBarrigada, GU 96921(671) 735-5606; fax: (671) 734-8324geraldine.james@guamcc.edu

marshall islandsKenson AlikGED AdministratorCollege of the Marshall IslandsPO Box 1258Majuro, MH 96960(692) 625-3394; fax: (692) 625-7203kenalik04@yahoo.com

northern mariana islandsFe Calixterio (change pending)ABE Director and GED AdministratorDepartment of Education/Northern Marianas CollegeCommonwealth of Northern Mariana IslandsPO Box 501250As Terlaje CampusSaipan, MP 96950(670) 234-5498, ext: 1720; fax: (670) 235-4940fec@nmcnet.edu

PalauSiles NgiraremiangGED AdministratorPalau Bureau of School AdministrationPalau GED OfficePO Box 189Koror, PL 96940(680) 488-5452; fax: (680) 488-8465silesngiraremiang@palaumoe.net

Puerto ricoLuis RuizGED AdministratorDepartment of EducationAdministration Adult Education ServicesPO Box 190759San Juan, PR 00919-0759(787) 759-2000, ext: 7625; fax: (787) 765-3972ruiz_l@de.gobierno.pr

virgin islandsEduardo CorneiroGED AdministratorDepartment of EducationState Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education1834 Kongens GadeCharlotte AmalieSt Thomas, VI 00802-6746(340) 776-3484; fax: (340) 776-3488ecorneiro@doe.vi

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albertaMichele SamuelGED AdministratorAlberta EducationLearner Assessment Branch44 Capital Boulevard,10044-108th Street NWEdmonton, AB T5J 5E6(780) 427-0010; fax: (780) 422-4889michele.samuel@gov.ab.ca

British columbiaDianne MyersGED AdministratorMinistry of EducationPO Box 9886, STN Province GovernmentVictoria, BC V8W 9T6(250) 356-8133; fax: (250) 356-0271dianne.myers@gov.bc.ca

manitobaMarie MathesonGED AdministratorManitoba EducationAdvanced Education and TrainingAdult Learning and Literacy340 9th Street, Room 364Brandon, MB R7A 6C2(204) 726-6027; fax: (204) 726-6339marie.matheson@gov.mb.ca

new BrunswickLinda O’BrienGED AdministratorDepartment of Postsecondary Education and Training470 York Street, Suite 120PO Box 6000Fredericton, NB E3B 5H1(506) 444-3492; fax: (506) 444-4078linda.o’brien@gnb.ca

newfoundland and labradorRobert GardinerGED Administrator and Chief ExaminerDepartment of EducationEvaluation and ResearchPO Box 8700St. John’s, NL A1B 4J6(709) 729-3000; fax: (709) 729-0611bobgardiner@gov.nl.ca

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nova scotiaMichelle ThomasonGED AdministratorDepartment of Labour and Workforce Development2021 Brunswick StreetPO Box 578Halifax, NS B3J 2S9(902) 424-8033; fax: (902) 424-1171thomasmm@gov.ns.ca

nunavutKathy OkpikGED AdministratorGovernment of NunavutEducation HeadquartersPO Box 1000, Station 980Iqaluit, NU X0A 0H0(867) 975-5600; fax: (867) 975-5635kokpik@gov.nu.ca

ontarioRon PellandGED Administrator and Chief ExaminerOntario Education Communications Authority2180 Yonge Street, 1st FloorToronto, ON M4F 2B9(416) 484-2600, ext. 5134; fax: (416) 484-2750rpelland@tvo.org

Prince edward islandBarbara MacnuttGED AdministratorDepartment of EducationLiteracy Initiatives Secretariat16 FitzroyPO Box 2000Charlottetown, PE C1A 7N8(902) 368-6286; fax: (902) 368-6144bemacnutt@edu.pe.ca

QuébecMarc Le DucGED AdministratorDirection de la Formation Générale des Adultes1035 De La Chevrotière, 13th FloorQuébec, QC G1R 5A5(418) 643-9754, ext. 2394; fax: (418) 528-7454marc.leduc@mels.gouv.qu.ca

saskatchewanJim SeiferlingGED AdministratorSaskatchewan Ministry of Advanced Learning1945 Hamilton StreetEmployment and Labour, 12th FloorRegina, SK S4P 2C8(306) 787-8131; fax: (306) 787-7182ernie.lipinski@sasked.gov.sk.ca

yukon territoryShelagh RowlesGED AdministratorYukon College500 College DrivePO Box 2799Whitehorse, YT Y1A 5K4(867) 668-8741; fax: (867) 668-8828srowles@yukoncollege.yk.ca

INTER-REGIONaL CONTRaCTS

dantesBob BerkleyGED AdministratorDANTESAttn: Code 20B6490 Saufley Field RoadPensacola, FL 32509-5243(850) 452-1111, ext. 3118; fax: (850) 452-1160robert.w.berkley@navy.mil

federal Bureau of PrisonsRenee RitterGED AdministratorFederal Bureau of PrisonsDepartment of Justice320 First Street NWWashington, DC 20534(202) 305-3808; fax: (202) 305-7363hlarson@bop.gov

international-Prometrictm

Wendy BowenProgram ManagerPrometricTM

1501 S. Clinton Street, 14th FloorBaltimore, MD 21224(443) 455-8877; fax: (443) 455-6414Wendy.Bowen@prometric.com

michigan PrisonsJulie DeRoseEducation ManagerMichigan Department of CorrectionsMDOC Education Division5656 South Cedar Street, Suite 100Lansing, MI 48911(517) 335-1388; fax: (517) 373-8776derosejl@michigan.gov

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term ending december 2010Jane ArabianAssistant Director for Enlistment StandardsOffice of the Secretary of Defense, Accession Policy4000 Defense, Pentagon, Room 3C1066 Washington, DC 20301-4000(703) 697-9271; fax: (703) 614-9272jane.arabian@osd.mil

Ryan ChampeauSchool Change CoachCenter for Secondary School Redesign, Inc.1221 Seitz DriveWaukesha, WI 53186(262) 521-3336; fax: (262) 521-0669ryanchampeau@aol.com Richard LaPanSenior Policy AnalystNew Mexico Department of Finance and Administration 180 Bataan Memorial BuildingSanta Fe, NM 87501-2786(505) 476-1060; fax: (505) 476-1072richard.lapan@state.nm.us

Ronna Spacone (Ex Officio)Education Program SpecialistU.S. Department of Education550 12th Street SWPotomac Center Plaza, Room 11025Washington, DC 20202(202) 245-7755; fax: (202) 245-7171ronna.spacone@ed.gov

term ending december 2011Debi K. FaucetteDirector, Adult Education and TrainingLouisiana Department of EducationClaiborne Building, Room 4-2711201 North Third StreetBaton Rouge, LA 70802(225) 453-2721; fax: (225) 219-4439debi.faucette@la.gov

Cheryl KingPresidentKentucky Wesleyan University 3000 Frederica StreetJones Administration BuildingOwensboro, KY 42301(270) 852-3104; fax: (270) 852-3190cherylking@kwc.edu

Mark MusickJames H. Quillen Chair of Excellence for Teaching and LearningEast Tennessee State University665 East Pelham RoadAtlanta, GA 30324(404) 402-0624; fax: (404) 872-1477musickma@etsu.edu

Anthony ParkerPresidentAlbany Technical CollegeOffice of the President1704 S. Slappery BoulevardBuilding F, Room 6225Albany, GA 31701(229) 430-0656; fax: (229) 430-6180aparker@albanytech.edu

Pat Taylor Educational Consultant for Adult Education and GED Private Educational Consultant4725 East Brown Road, #51Mesa, AZ 85205(480) 985-3913; fax: (480) 985-3913 pattaylor@cox.net

term ending december 2012Lennox McLendonExecutive DirectorNational Adult Education Professional Development Consortium, Inc.444 North Capital Street NW, Suite 422Washington, DC 20001(202) 624-5250; fax: (804) 314-6747lmclendon@naepdc.org

term ending december 2013Tony PeytonDirector of Policy and Government RelationsNational Center for Family Literacy325 West Main Street, Suite 300Louisville, KY 40202-4237(502) 584-1133; fax: (502) 584-0172 tpeyton@famlit.org

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officersJohn Sexton, ChairPresident, New York University

Eduardo J. Padrón, Vice Chair/Chair-electPresident, Miami Dade College, FL

Judy Genshaft, Immediate Past ChairPresident, University of South Florida

Leslie Wong, SecretaryPresident, Northern Michigan University

Molly Corbett Broad, Ex OfficioPresident, American Council on Education

term ending march 2011Susan A. Cole, PresidentMontclair State University, NJ

Pamela B. Gann, PresidentClaremont McKenna College, CA

Judy Genshaft, PresidentUniversity of South Florida

Carolyn A. “Biddy” Martin, ChancellorUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison

Patricia McGuire, PresidentTrinity Washington University, DC

Charles Middleton, PresidentRoosevelt University, IL

Kevin P. Reilly, PresidentUniversity of Wisconsin System

Leslie Wong, PresidentNorthern Michigan University

term ending march 2012Joseph Aoun, PresidentNortheastern University, MA

Edward Ayers, PresidentUniversity of Richmond, VA

Ding-Jo Currie, ChancellorCoast Community College District, CA

Antoine Garibaldi, PresidentGannon University, PA

Horace Mitchell, PresidentCalifornia State University, Bakersfield

Diana Natalicio, PresidentUniversity of Texas at El Paso

John Sexton, PresidentNew York University

Mark Yudof, PresidentUniversity of California

term ending march 2013Brice W. Harris, ChancellorLos Rios Community College District, CA

Anthony W. Marx, PresidentAmherst College, MA

Félix V. Matos Rodríguez, PresidentEugenio María de Hostos Community College of The City University of New York (CUNY)

David Maxwell, PresidentDrake University, IA

James H. Mullen, PresidentAllegheny College, PA

Eduardo J. Padrón, PresidentMiami Dade College, FL

Ricardo Romo, PresidentThe University of Texas at San Antonio

R. Gerald Turner, PresidentSouthern Methodist University, TX

designated associations—for three-year termsAmerican Association of Community CollegesKeith L. Miller, PresidentGreenville Technical College, SCTerm Ending May 2012

American Association of State Colleges & UniversitiesGeorge A. Pruitt, PresidentThomas Edison State College, NJTerm Ending February 2011

Association of American Colleges & UniversitiesChristopher C. Dahl, PresidentState University of New York at GeneseoTerm Ending February 2012

Association of American UniversitiesJehuda Reinharz, PresidentBrandeis University, MATerm Ending April 2012

Association of Catholic Colleges & UniversitiesStephen A. Privett, S.J., PresidentUniversity of San Francisco, CATerm Ending August 2011

Association of Jesuit Colleges & UniversitiesBrian Linnane, S.J., PresidentLoyola University MarylandTerm Ending March 2013

Association of Public & Land-grant UniversitiesSally Mason, PresidentUniversity of IowaTerm Ending May 2011

Council of Independent CollegesGeorge E. Martin, PresidentSt. Edward’s University, TXTerm Ending January 2013

National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher EducationTBD

National Association of Independent Colleges & UniversitiesLoren J. Anderson, PresidentPacific Lutheran University, WATerm Ending May 2012

elected associations—for one-year term, ending march 2011American Association of University Professors (AAUP)Gary Rhoades, General Secretary

Council of Graduate SchoolsDebra W. Stewart, President

designated representative washington higher education secretariat—for one-year term, ending march 2011John Walda, PresidentNational Association of College and University Business Officers

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annual statistical reports about ged testing• A PDF of the 2009 GED® Testing Program Statistical Report is available online at www.GEDtest.org.• Archived editions of the annual statistical reports from 1958 to 2008 are available for download at www.

GEDtest.org under the Publications & Research heading.• 2008–09 GED Option Statistical Report

ged testing service research studies• Crossing the Bridge: GED Credentials and Postsecondary Educational Outcomes (2010)• Policies of Test Centers and Jurisdictions and GED Candidate Test Performance (2009)• GED Candidates and Their Postsecondary Educational Outcomes: A Pilot Study (2009)• Reliability and Validity Evidence for the GED English as a Second Language Test (2009)• Reliability Analysis for the Internationally Administered 2002 Series GED Tests (2009)• Preparation for and Performance on the GED Test (2009)• Young GED Examinees and Their Performance on the GED Tests (2009)• The Health Literacy of U.S. Adults Across GED Credential Recipients, High School Graduates, and Non–High

School Graduates (2008)• Economic and Noneconomic Outcomes for GED Credential Recipients (2008)• The Literacy of U.S. Adults with Disabilities Across GED Credential Recipients, High School Graduates, and

Non–High School Graduates (2008)• The Literacy of U.S. Adults with GED Credentials: 2003 NAAL and 1992 NALS (2007)• Examinee and High School Senior Performance on the GED Tests (2007)• Differences Between Students Who Were and Were Not Retained in Grade (2007)• Dropouts Immediately Pursuing a GED Credential (2006)• GED Candidate Computer Familiarity Survey (2006)• An Exploration of GED Standard Score Stability: 2001 Through 2005 (2006)• Examining the Validity of GED Tests Scores with Scheduling and Setting Accommodations (2004)• General Academic Achievement of Adult High School Dropouts (2002)

Full research studies and executive summaries are available for download in PDF at www.GEDtest.org under the Publications & Research heading.

other technical Publications

• GED Testing Service. (2009). Technical Manual: 2002 Series GED Tests. Washington, DC: American Council on Education.

More information on GED Testing Service, its research studies, and the GED testing program is available at www.GEDtest.org.

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Jurisdiction

Active Official

Ged Testing centers

(n)

Residency Requirements

Title of Ged credential Awarded

Testing FeeRequirements to Receive a Ged

credentialRequirements prior to Testing Age of

Required school

Attendance Without

exceptions

Minimum Age for Testing Min.

Age for credential

With exceptions

Time Limit for Battery

completion?

scores ever

expire (Before a new Test series)?

Retesting Language Versions

First Testing

(Battery)Retesting Minimum

scoresOther

Requirementsinstruction Required?

Must Take the

OpT?2OpT Fee

OpT scores

Required to Take the Ged

Test

Without exceptions/ Waiver or Additional

documentation

With exceptions/ Waiver or Additional

documentation1

Must complete

Battery Before Retesting the Failed Area?

Wait period

Required?

Remediation Required?

Language Versions Offered

esL Test Required

for spanish/ French

Languages candidates?

Languages with

scores combined

United states

Alabama 53 Resident if younger than 18

State of Alabama High School

Equivalency Diploma$50 $10 per

subtest410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 17 18 16 16 Yes (90 days) No Yes Yes

(42 days) No E + S + F No E + S + F

Alaska 20Physically present in the state when

applying

Diploma by GED Examination $25 (optional)

$5 per subtest

(optional)

410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 16 18 16 16 No No No No No E + S + F No E + S + F

Arizona 41 None Arizona High School Equivalency Diploma $65–$90 $10–$15 per

subtest410 min. & 450 avg. – No Varies – – 16 18 16 16 No No Yes Yes (30

days) Varies E + S + F No None

Arkansas 62 ResidentArkansas

High School Diploma

$0 $0 410 min. & 450 avg. – No Yes $0 410 min. &

450 avg. 18 18 16 16 No No Yes

Yes (30–60 days; or hours

required by ABE)

Yes (see hours required by

ABE)

E + S + F No None

california 190 ResidentCalifornia High

School Equivalency Certificate

$150 approx. $25 approx. per subtest

410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 18 Within 60 days of

turning 18 17 18 No No No No No E + S + F No None

colorado 54 Resident High School Equivalency Diploma $80–$100 $15–$20

per subtest410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 17 17 16 16 No No No Yes (1 day) No E + S + F No E + S + F

connecticut 23 Resident Connecticut State High School Diploma

$13 (battery or subtest) if 21 years of age or older

and non-veteran

$13 per battery or subtest

410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 16 19 17 17 No No Yes Yes (120

days) No E + S No E + S

delaware 6 Resident or work in state

Delaware State Board of Education

Endorsement $75 $25 per

subtest410 min. & 450 avg. – No Yes $35 470 min. &

450 avg.18 or class graduated 18 16 18 Yes (1–2 days) No No Yes (45

days) No E + S No None

district of columbia 1Bonafide resident/Court order/Job

CorpsGED Credential $50 $10 per

subtest410 min. & 450 avg. – No Yes $0 410 min. &

450 avg. 18 18 16 16 No No No

Yes (30 days if 3+ test scores ≥450; 90

days if less than 3 test scores >450; may be waived)

No E + S + F No None

Florida 82None at the state

level; sometimes at the center level

State of Florida High School Diploma $70 max.

$16 for Writing and $14 for

other subtests

410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 16 18 16 16 No No Varies by center E + S + F No E + S + F

Georgia 47 None Georgia GED Diploma $95 $19 per

subtest410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 16 20 16 16 No No Yes

Yes (90 days if

battery avg. 400–429; 180 days if battery avg.

<400)

Yes (instruction) E + S + F No None

Hawaii 13 Resident High School Diploma $75 $15 per

subtest410 min. & 450 avg.

One semester’s credit in

Community School for Adults (may be waived)

Yes (60 hours

min.)No – – 18 18 16 16 No No Yes

Varies by testing

scheduleNo E + S No E + S

idaho 8 Resident

Idaho High School Equivalency Certificate

$75 (plus $10 processing

fee)

$15 per subtest

410 min. & 450 avg.

Must successfully

complete American

Government course

No No – – 16 18 16 16 No No No No No E + S No None

illinois 75 30 days residentIllinois High School

Equivalency Certificate

$50 $15 for Writing

and $10 for other subtests

410 min. & 450 avg.

Must pass high school–level

Constitution testNo No – – 17 17 16 17 No No Yes No No E + S + F No E + S + F

indiana 71 30 days resident GED Diploma $60 max. $12–$15 per subtest

410 min. & 450 avg. – No Yes, if 17

years old Usually $0 410 min. & 450 avg. 18 18 17 17 Yes (35 days) No Yes

Yes (1st retest:

90 days if battery

avg. ≤428; 30 days if 430–448. 180 days otherwise)

No E + S + F No None

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Active Official

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Title of Ged credential Awarded

Testing FeeRequirements to Receive a Ged

credentialRequirements prior to Testing Age of

Required school

Attendance Without

exceptions

Minimum Age for Testing Min.

Age for credential

With exceptions

Time Limit for Battery

completion?

scores ever

expire (Before a new Test series)?

Retesting Language Versions

First Testing

(Battery)Retesting Minimum

scoresOther

Requirementsinstruction Required?

Must Take the

OpT?2OpT Fee

OpT scores

Required to Take the Ged

Test

Without exceptions/ Waiver or Additional

documentation

With exceptions/ Waiver or Additional

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Must complete

Battery Before Retesting the Failed Area?

Wait period

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Remediation Required?

Language Versions Offered

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Languages with

scores combined

United states

Alabama 53 Resident if younger than 18

State of Alabama High School

Equivalency Diploma$50 $10 per

subtest410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 17 18 16 16 Yes (90 days) No Yes Yes

(42 days) No E + S + F No E + S + F

Alaska 20Physically present in the state when

applying

Diploma by GED Examination $25 (optional)

$5 per subtest

(optional)

410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 16 18 16 16 No No No No No E + S + F No E + S + F

Arizona 41 None Arizona High School Equivalency Diploma $65–$90 $10–$15 per

subtest410 min. & 450 avg. – No Varies – – 16 18 16 16 No No Yes Yes (30

days) Varies E + S + F No None

Arkansas 62 ResidentArkansas

High School Diploma

$0 $0 410 min. & 450 avg. – No Yes $0 410 min. &

450 avg. 18 18 16 16 No No Yes

Yes (30–60 days; or hours

required by ABE)

Yes (see hours required by

ABE)

E + S + F No None

california 190 ResidentCalifornia High

School Equivalency Certificate

$150 approx. $25 approx. per subtest

410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 18 Within 60 days of

turning 18 17 18 No No No No No E + S + F No None

colorado 54 Resident High School Equivalency Diploma $80–$100 $15–$20

per subtest410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 17 17 16 16 No No No Yes (1 day) No E + S + F No E + S + F

connecticut 23 Resident Connecticut State High School Diploma

$13 (battery or subtest) if 21 years of age or older

and non-veteran

$13 per battery or subtest

410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 16 19 17 17 No No Yes Yes (120

days) No E + S No E + S

delaware 6 Resident or work in state

Delaware State Board of Education

Endorsement $75 $25 per

subtest410 min. & 450 avg. – No Yes $35 470 min. &

450 avg.18 or class graduated 18 16 18 Yes (1–2 days) No No Yes (45

days) No E + S No None

district of columbia 1Bonafide resident/Court order/Job

CorpsGED Credential $50 $10 per

subtest410 min. & 450 avg. – No Yes $0 410 min. &

450 avg. 18 18 16 16 No No No

Yes (30 days if 3+ test scores ≥450; 90

days if less than 3 test scores >450; may be waived)

No E + S + F No None

Florida 82None at the state

level; sometimes at the center level

State of Florida High School Diploma $70 max.

$16 for Writing and $14 for

other subtests

410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 16 18 16 16 No No Varies by center E + S + F No E + S + F

Georgia 47 None Georgia GED Diploma $95 $19 per

subtest410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 16 20 16 16 No No Yes

Yes (90 days if

battery avg. 400–429; 180 days if battery avg.

<400)

Yes (instruction) E + S + F No None

Hawaii 13 Resident High School Diploma $75 $15 per

subtest410 min. & 450 avg.

One semester’s credit in

Community School for Adults (may be waived)

Yes (60 hours

min.)No – – 18 18 16 16 No No Yes

Varies by testing

scheduleNo E + S No E + S

idaho 8 Resident

Idaho High School Equivalency Certificate

$75 (plus $10 processing

fee)

$15 per subtest

410 min. & 450 avg.

Must successfully

complete American

Government course

No No – – 16 18 16 16 No No No No No E + S No None

illinois 75 30 days residentIllinois High School

Equivalency Certificate

$50 $15 for Writing

and $10 for other subtests

410 min. & 450 avg.

Must pass high school–level

Constitution testNo No – – 17 17 16 17 No No Yes No No E + S + F No E + S + F

indiana 71 30 days resident GED Diploma $60 max. $12–$15 per subtest

410 min. & 450 avg. – No Yes, if 17

years old Usually $0 410 min. & 450 avg. 18 18 17 17 Yes (35 days) No Yes

Yes (1st retest:

90 days if battery

avg. ≤428; 30 days if 430–448. 180 days otherwise)

No E + S + F No None

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Minimum Age for Testing Min.

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With exceptions

Time Limit for Battery

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Retesting Language Versions

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scoresOther

Requirementsinstruction Required?

Must Take the

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iowa 42 None Iowa High School Equivalency Diploma Varies $5 per

subtest410 min. & 450 avg. – No Yes $0

460–500 range

on each subtest; local

programs might also

require 460 avg. on the

1st four OPT subtests

taken. (Plus, if candidate

has 40+ hours of

instruction: CASAS C-D 263–250 range for Reading

and Math and 4–5 for

Writing.)

16 17 – 18 Yes (2 years); may be waived No No Varies

Yes (passing

CASAS or OPT scores)

E + S + F No E + S + F

Kansas 25 Resident Kansas State High School Diploma $68 $68 per

battery420 min. & 450 avg. – No Yes $25 450 min. &

500 avg. 18 18 16 16 Yes (90 days) Yes (1 year) No No No E + S No E + S

Kentucky 42 State mailing address

Commonwealth of Kentucky High School Equivalency Diploma

$50

$15 per subtest or $25

for each 3 sessions

410 min. & 450 avg. – No Yes $0 410 min. &

450 avg. 16 19 16 16 No No Yes No Yes (improved OPT scores) E + S No None

Louisiana 43 None

Louisiana High School Equivalency

Diploma

$50 approx. $35 approx. per battery

410 min. & 450 avg. –

Yes, if less than

19 years old

Yes, if less than

19 years old$0 410 min. &

450 avg. 18 19 16 16 No Yes (5 years) No Yes (30 days)

Yes, if younger than 19 years old (instruction

in area(s) of deficiency)

E + S + F No E + S + F

Maine 78 None Maine High School Equivalency Diploma $0 $0 410 min. &

450 avg. – No Yes $0 410 min. & 450 avg. 16 18 17 17 No No No No No E + S + F No None

Maryland 20 90 days residentMaryland

High School Diploma

$45$45 per

battery or subtest

410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 16 16 – 16 Yes (5 years) Yes (5 years) No Yes (60

days) No E + S + F No

E + S + F (Writing must

be taken in English language

if tested in Spanish or

French)

Massachusetts 32Resident for issuance of credential

Massachusetts State High School

Equivalency Credential

$65 $15 per subtest

410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 16 18 16 17 Yes (1 year) Yes (3 years) Yes No No E + S No None

Michigan 118 NoneHigh School Equivalency Certificate

$30–$380 $10–$50 per subtest

410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 16 18 16 18 No No No No No E + S + F No NA

Minnesota 59 Resident State of Minnesota GED Diploma $50–$120 $10–$20 per

subtest410 min. & 450 avg. – Varies Varies $0 Varies 16 19 16 16 No No No Varies

Varies (instruction and improved OPT

score)

E + S + F No E + S + F

Mississippi 37 30 days residentState of Mississippi

High School Equivalency Diploma

$40 $12 per subtest

410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 17 17 16 17 No No No No No E + S + F No None

Missouri 27 State mailing address

Missouri Certificate of High School Equivalence

$40 $40 per battery

410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 17 17 16 17 Yes (2 years) Yes (2 years) No Yes (60

days) No E + S + F No None

Montana 22 Resident State of Montana Equivalency Diploma $55

$14 for Writing and $7 for

other subtests

410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 16 19 16 16 No No Yes Yes (30–90

days) No E + S No E + S

nebraska 34 30 days resident

State of Nebraska Department of Education High School Diploma

$0-$75 $10 max. per subtest

410 min. & 450 avg. –

Yes, if less than 18 years

oldNo – – 18 18 16

18 or cohort graduated 1+

year agoNo No No

Yes (60 days or

instruction)

Yes, to waive retest wait (instruction)

E + S No None

nevada 20 None

State of Nevada Department of

Education Certificate of High School

Equivalency

$60

$0 for 1 year (if retesting at the same test

center)

410 min. & 450 avg. – No

Yes, if 16 years old in

some districts$0–10 410 min. &

450 avg. 18 18 16 16 No No Yes No No E + S No None

new Hampshire 19 Resident Certificate of High School Equivaleny $65 $15 per

subtest410 min. & 450 avg. – No

Yes, if less than 18 years old. Varies for 18 years old and above

Varies410 min. and 510

avg.18 18 16 16 No No No No No E + S + F No None

new Jersey 32 ResidentNew Jersey State

Issued High School Diploma

$50 $10 per subtest

410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 18 18 16 16 No No Yes No No E + S + F Yes None

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Required school

Attendance Without

exceptions

Minimum Age for Testing Min.

Age for credential

With exceptions

Time Limit for Battery

completion?

scores ever

expire (Before a new Test series)?

Retesting Language Versions

First Testing

(Battery)Retesting Minimum

scoresOther

Requirementsinstruction Required?

Must Take the

OpT?2OpT Fee

OpT scores

Required to Take the Ged

Test

Without exceptions/ Waiver or Additional

documentation

With exceptions/ Waiver or Additional

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Battery Before Retesting the Failed Area?

Wait period

Required?

Remediation Required?

Language Versions Offered

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Languages candidates?

Languages with

scores combined

iowa 42 None Iowa High School Equivalency Diploma Varies $5 per

subtest410 min. & 450 avg. – No Yes $0

460–500 range

on each subtest; local

programs might also

require 460 avg. on the

1st four OPT subtests

taken. (Plus, if candidate

has 40+ hours of

instruction: CASAS C-D 263–250 range for Reading

and Math and 4–5 for

Writing.)

16 17 – 18 Yes (2 years); may be waived No No Varies

Yes (passing

CASAS or OPT scores)

E + S + F No E + S + F

Kansas 25 Resident Kansas State High School Diploma $68 $68 per

battery420 min. & 450 avg. – No Yes $25 450 min. &

500 avg. 18 18 16 16 Yes (90 days) Yes (1 year) No No No E + S No E + S

Kentucky 42 State mailing address

Commonwealth of Kentucky High School Equivalency Diploma

$50

$15 per subtest or $25

for each 3 sessions

410 min. & 450 avg. – No Yes $0 410 min. &

450 avg. 16 19 16 16 No No Yes No Yes (improved OPT scores) E + S No None

Louisiana 43 None

Louisiana High School Equivalency

Diploma

$50 approx. $35 approx. per battery

410 min. & 450 avg. –

Yes, if less than

19 years old

Yes, if less than

19 years old$0 410 min. &

450 avg. 18 19 16 16 No Yes (5 years) No Yes (30 days)

Yes, if younger than 19 years old (instruction

in area(s) of deficiency)

E + S + F No E + S + F

Maine 78 None Maine High School Equivalency Diploma $0 $0 410 min. &

450 avg. – No Yes $0 410 min. & 450 avg. 16 18 17 17 No No No No No E + S + F No None

Maryland 20 90 days residentMaryland

High School Diploma

$45$45 per

battery or subtest

410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 16 16 – 16 Yes (5 years) Yes (5 years) No Yes (60

days) No E + S + F No

E + S + F (Writing must

be taken in English language

if tested in Spanish or

French)

Massachusetts 32Resident for issuance of credential

Massachusetts State High School

Equivalency Credential

$65 $15 per subtest

410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 16 18 16 17 Yes (1 year) Yes (3 years) Yes No No E + S No None

Michigan 118 NoneHigh School Equivalency Certificate

$30–$380 $10–$50 per subtest

410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 16 18 16 18 No No No No No E + S + F No NA

Minnesota 59 Resident State of Minnesota GED Diploma $50–$120 $10–$20 per

subtest410 min. & 450 avg. – Varies Varies $0 Varies 16 19 16 16 No No No Varies

Varies (instruction and improved OPT

score)

E + S + F No E + S + F

Mississippi 37 30 days residentState of Mississippi

High School Equivalency Diploma

$40 $12 per subtest

410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 17 17 16 17 No No No No No E + S + F No None

Missouri 27 State mailing address

Missouri Certificate of High School Equivalence

$40 $40 per battery

410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 17 17 16 17 Yes (2 years) Yes (2 years) No Yes (60

days) No E + S + F No None

Montana 22 Resident State of Montana Equivalency Diploma $55

$14 for Writing and $7 for

other subtests

410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 16 19 16 16 No No Yes Yes (30–90

days) No E + S No E + S

nebraska 34 30 days resident

State of Nebraska Department of Education High School Diploma

$0-$75 $10 max. per subtest

410 min. & 450 avg. –

Yes, if less than 18 years

oldNo – – 18 18 16

18 or cohort graduated 1+

year agoNo No No

Yes (60 days or

instruction)

Yes, to waive retest wait (instruction)

E + S No None

nevada 20 None

State of Nevada Department of

Education Certificate of High School

Equivalency

$60

$0 for 1 year (if retesting at the same test

center)

410 min. & 450 avg. – No

Yes, if 16 years old in

some districts$0–10 410 min. &

450 avg. 18 18 16 16 No No Yes No No E + S No None

new Hampshire 19 Resident Certificate of High School Equivaleny $65 $15 per

subtest410 min. & 450 avg. – No

Yes, if less than 18 years old. Varies for 18 years old and above

Varies410 min. and 510

avg.18 18 16 16 No No No No No E + S + F No None

new Jersey 32 ResidentNew Jersey State

Issued High School Diploma

$50 $10 per subtest

410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 18 18 16 16 No No Yes No No E + S + F Yes None

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Required school

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exceptions

Minimum Age for Testing Min.

Age for credential

With exceptions

Time Limit for Battery

completion?

scores ever

expire (Before a new Test series)?

Retesting Language Versions

First Testing

(Battery)Retesting Minimum

scoresOther

Requirementsinstruction Required?

Must Take the

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OpT scores

Required to Take the Ged

Test

Without exceptions/ Waiver or Additional

documentation

With exceptions/ Waiver or Additional

documentation1

Must complete

Battery Before Retesting the Failed Area?

Wait period

Required?

Remediation Required?

Language Versions Offered

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for spanish/ French

Languages candidates?

Languages with

scores combined

new Mexico 28Resident; 30

days resident for credential

New Mexico High School Diploma $35–$100 $7–$20

per subtest410 min. & 450 avg. – Varies Varies $0 500 on each

subtest 18 18 16 16 Yes (3 years) Yes (3 years) Yes

Yes (30 days if 4

scores=410; 60 days

otherwise)

Yes, if test failed twice

(instruction or OPT)

E + S No None

new York 310 30 days resident

New York State High School

Equivalency Diploma

$0 $0 410 min. & 450 avg. – No

Yes, if candidate

tests through state-funded ABE program

$0 Varies 16 19 16 19 No No Yes Yes (60 days) No E + S + F No None

north carolina 74Resident (must take the last test in NC to receive credential)

High School Diploma Equivalency $7.50 $0 410 min. &

450 avg. – Yes (12–60 hours)

Yes (after TABE or CASAS)

$0 480 to 550 16 16 – 16 No No Yes YesYes (instruction

and passing OPT scores)

E + S + F No None

north dakota 18 None GED High School Diploma $25–$150 $25–$150

per battery410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 16 18 16 16 No No No Yes (6 days) No E + S No None

Ohio 99 None Ohio High School Equivalency Diploma $40 $10 per

battery410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 18 19 16 19 Yes (2 days) No No

Yes (30 days if avg. score=400;

60 days if =390; 90 days if =380;

120 days if <380)

No E + S No E + S

Oklahoma 55 Resident Oklahoma High School Diploma $45–$80 $5–$25

per subtest410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 18 18 16 18 No No No No No E + S No None

Oregon 46 None GED Certificate $25–$140 $10–$15 per subtest

410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 18 18 16 16 No No No No No E + S No E + S + F

pennsylvania 119 ResidentCommonwealth

Secondary School Diploma

Varies Varies 410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 16 18 16 18 No No No No No E + S + F No None

Rhode island 9 Resident Senior High School Equivalency Diploma $55 $4 per subtest 410 min. &

450 avg. – No Yes $0–$20 450 to 500 16 19 16 18 Yes (3 years) Yes (3 years) Yes Varies by score Varies E + S No E + S

south carolina 6None for testing;

resident for issuance of credential

South Carolina High School Equivalency

Diploma$80 $16 per

subtest410 min. & 450 avg. – No Yes, if 16

years old NA 440 avg. 17 17 16 16 No No No No No E – –

south dakota 15 None GED Certificate $95 $15 per subtest

450 min. and 450 avg. – No Yes

$0 for ABE

students; varies by center

500 min. on each content area (valid 1

year)

18 18 16 18 Yes (2 years) Yes (2 years) No Yes (30 days) No E – –

Tennessee 38 None Equivalency Diploma $50–$75 $10–$15 per subtest

410 min. & 450 avg. – No Yes $0 No min. 18 18 17 17 No No No Yes (30

days) No E + S + F No E + S + F

Texas 148 Resident Certificate of High School Equivalency $41–$150 $5–$30

per subtest 410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 18 18 16 16 No No No

Yes (180 days if no instruction)

Yes, to remove retest wait (instruction)

E + S + F No None

Utah 22 None Utah High School Completion Diploma $70

$20 for Writing and $15 for

other subtests

410 min. & 450 avg. – No Yes, if 16

years old Varies Varies 18 17 and peers graduated 16 16 No No Yes No No E + S No E + S

Vermont 12 NoneVermont Secondary School Equivalency

Certificate$75 $15 per

subtest410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 16 16 – 16 No No No No No E + S + F No E + S + F

Virginia 82 None GED Certificate$35 (plus $10 first-time test

taker fee)

$7 per subtest

410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 18 18 16 16 No No No No No E + S + F No E + S + F

Washington 55None for testing;

resident for issuance of credential

Certificate of Educational Competency

$75 $15 approx. per subtest

410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 18 19 16 16 No No No No No E + S + F No None

West Virginia 74 None State of West Virginia GED Diploma $0 $0 410 min. &

450 avg. – No Yes $0 410 min. & 450 avg. 16 19 16 16

Yes (6 weeks or 2 consecutive

testing sessions)No Yes No

Yes (OPT in area(s) of deficiency)

E + S + F No E + S + F

Wisconsin 80 10 days resident

Certificate of GED (or for GED Option:

High School Equivalency Diploma)

Varies Varies 410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 18 18.5 or 9th grade

class graduated 17 17 No No No Varies No E + S No E + S

Wyoming 28 None Certificate of High School quivalency

$50–$75 $12 max. per subtest

410 min. & 450 avg. –

Yes (12 hours min.)

Yes, if less than 18 $0 450 min. &

500 avg. 16 18 16 16 No No No No

Yes, for 3rd retest (instruction and proof of proficiency)

E + S No None

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Required school

Attendance Without

exceptions

Minimum Age for Testing Min.

Age for credential

With exceptions

Time Limit for Battery

completion?

scores ever

expire (Before a new Test series)?

Retesting Language Versions

First Testing

(Battery)Retesting Minimum

scoresOther

Requirementsinstruction Required?

Must Take the

OpT?2OpT Fee

OpT scores

Required to Take the Ged

Test

Without exceptions/ Waiver or Additional

documentation

With exceptions/ Waiver or Additional

documentation1

Must complete

Battery Before Retesting the Failed Area?

Wait period

Required?

Remediation Required?

Language Versions Offered

esL Test Required

for spanish/ French

Languages candidates?

Languages with

scores combined

new Mexico 28Resident; 30

days resident for credential

New Mexico High School Diploma $35–$100 $7–$20

per subtest410 min. & 450 avg. – Varies Varies $0 500 on each

subtest 18 18 16 16 Yes (3 years) Yes (3 years) Yes

Yes (30 days if 4

scores=410; 60 days

otherwise)

Yes, if test failed twice

(instruction or OPT)

E + S No None

new York 310 30 days resident

New York State High School

Equivalency Diploma

$0 $0 410 min. & 450 avg. – No

Yes, if candidate

tests through state-funded ABE program

$0 Varies 16 19 16 19 No No Yes Yes (60 days) No E + S + F No None

north carolina 74Resident (must take the last test in NC to receive credential)

High School Diploma Equivalency $7.50 $0 410 min. &

450 avg. – Yes (12–60 hours)

Yes (after TABE or CASAS)

$0 480 to 550 16 16 – 16 No No Yes YesYes (instruction

and passing OPT scores)

E + S + F No None

north dakota 18 None GED High School Diploma $25–$150 $25–$150

per battery410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 16 18 16 16 No No No Yes (6 days) No E + S No None

Ohio 99 None Ohio High School Equivalency Diploma $40 $10 per

battery410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 18 19 16 19 Yes (2 days) No No

Yes (30 days if avg. score=400;

60 days if =390; 90 days if =380;

120 days if <380)

No E + S No E + S

Oklahoma 55 Resident Oklahoma High School Diploma $45–$80 $5–$25

per subtest410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 18 18 16 18 No No No No No E + S No None

Oregon 46 None GED Certificate $25–$140 $10–$15 per subtest

410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 18 18 16 16 No No No No No E + S No E + S + F

pennsylvania 119 ResidentCommonwealth

Secondary School Diploma

Varies Varies 410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 16 18 16 18 No No No No No E + S + F No None

Rhode island 9 Resident Senior High School Equivalency Diploma $55 $4 per subtest 410 min. &

450 avg. – No Yes $0–$20 450 to 500 16 19 16 18 Yes (3 years) Yes (3 years) Yes Varies by score Varies E + S No E + S

south carolina 6None for testing;

resident for issuance of credential

South Carolina High School Equivalency

Diploma$80 $16 per

subtest410 min. & 450 avg. – No Yes, if 16

years old NA 440 avg. 17 17 16 16 No No No No No E – –

south dakota 15 None GED Certificate $95 $15 per subtest

450 min. and 450 avg. – No Yes

$0 for ABE

students; varies by center

500 min. on each content area (valid 1

year)

18 18 16 18 Yes (2 years) Yes (2 years) No Yes (30 days) No E – –

Tennessee 38 None Equivalency Diploma $50–$75 $10–$15 per subtest

410 min. & 450 avg. – No Yes $0 No min. 18 18 17 17 No No No Yes (30

days) No E + S + F No E + S + F

Texas 148 Resident Certificate of High School Equivalency $41–$150 $5–$30

per subtest 410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 18 18 16 16 No No No

Yes (180 days if no instruction)

Yes, to remove retest wait (instruction)

E + S + F No None

Utah 22 None Utah High School Completion Diploma $70

$20 for Writing and $15 for

other subtests

410 min. & 450 avg. – No Yes, if 16

years old Varies Varies 18 17 and peers graduated 16 16 No No Yes No No E + S No E + S

Vermont 12 NoneVermont Secondary School Equivalency

Certificate$75 $15 per

subtest410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 16 16 – 16 No No No No No E + S + F No E + S + F

Virginia 82 None GED Certificate$35 (plus $10 first-time test

taker fee)

$7 per subtest

410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 18 18 16 16 No No No No No E + S + F No E + S + F

Washington 55None for testing;

resident for issuance of credential

Certificate of Educational Competency

$75 $15 approx. per subtest

410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 18 19 16 16 No No No No No E + S + F No None

West Virginia 74 None State of West Virginia GED Diploma $0 $0 410 min. &

450 avg. – No Yes $0 410 min. & 450 avg. 16 19 16 16

Yes (6 weeks or 2 consecutive

testing sessions)No Yes No

Yes (OPT in area(s) of deficiency)

E + S + F No E + S + F

Wisconsin 80 10 days resident

Certificate of GED (or for GED Option:

High School Equivalency Diploma)

Varies Varies 410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 18 18.5 or 9th grade

class graduated 17 17 No No No Varies No E + S No E + S

Wyoming 28 None Certificate of High School quivalency

$50–$75 $12 max. per subtest

410 min. & 450 avg. –

Yes (12 hours min.)

Yes, if less than 18 $0 450 min. &

500 avg. 16 18 16 16 No No No No

Yes, for 3rd retest (instruction and proof of proficiency)

E + S No None

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With exceptions

Time Limit for Battery

completion?

scores ever

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Retesting Language Versions

First Testing

(Battery)Retesting Minimum

scoresOther

Requirementsinstruction Required?

Must Take the

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Required to Take the Ged

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Required?

Remediation Required?

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Languages with

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insular Areas

American samoa 1 Resident American Samoa High School Diploma

$30 (free if enrolled in

ABE)

$10 per subtest

410 min. & 450 avg. – No

Yes, if enrolled in

ABE$0 410 min. &

450 avg. 18 18 and class graduated 16 18 Yes (2 days) No Yes Yes (30

days)Yes, if enrolled

in ABE E – –

Federated states of Micronesia 4 Resident High School

Equivalency Diploma $25 $25 per battery

410 min. & 450 avg. – No No (other pre-

test required) – – 21 17 – 17 No No Yes No No None – –

Guam 1 Resident High School Equivalency Diploma $33 $9 per subtest 410 min. &

450 avg. – No Yes $33 410 min. & 450 avg. 16 18 16 16 Yes (2 days) Yes (60 days) No

Yes (60 days with

instruction; 180 days otherwise)

Yes, to retest in 60 days E – –

Marshall islands 1 Resident GED Diploma $35 $25 per subtest

410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 16 19 17 17 Yes (2 half days) No No Yes

(90 days) No E – –

northern Mariana islands 1 Legal resident or

U.S. citizen GED Diploma $20 $20 per battery

410 min. & 450 avg. – No

Varies (CASAS,

OPT)$0 410 min. &

450 avg. 16 18 16 18 Varies by testing schedule No Yes Yes

(90 days) No None – –

palau 1 Resident High School Equivalency Diploma $0 $20 410 min. &

450 avg. – Yes (60 hours) Yes $0 410 min. &

450 avg. 18 18 – 18 NA No NA Varies Yes (instruction) None – –

puerto Rico 10 U.S. citizenDiploma de

Equivalencia de Escuela Superior

$0 $0

Spanish-language version: 410

min. & 2,700 total;

English-language version: 410

min. & 2,250 total

– Yes (180 hours) Yes $0 500 avg. 18 18 and completed

8th grade – 18 Yes (2 days) No Yes Yes (30 days) No E + S Yes NA

Virgin islands 1 None High School Diploma $25 $25 per battery

410 min. & 450 avg. – No

Yes (Math, Writing, and

Reading subtests)

$15 410 min. & 450 avg. 16 16 – 16 NA No No No No E + S No Yes

canada

Alberta 15 Resident High School Equivalency Diploma Varies Varies 450 min. – No No – – 16 18 17 18 No No No Yes

(90 days) No E + F No E + F

British columbia 1 Resident

British Columbia Secondary School

Equivalency Certificate

$60

$40 for 1 subtest, $45 for 2, $50 for 3, $55 for 4

450 min. – No No – – 18 18 – 18 No No No No No E + F No None

Manitoba 1 NoneManitoba Senior

Years Equivalency Diploma

$65$65 per

battery or subtest

450 min. – No No – – 19 19 16 16 Varies by testing schedule No Yes No No E + F No NA

new Brunswick 2 None High School Equivalency Diploma $0

$40 per battery or subtest

450 min. – No No – – 19 19 18 18 Yes (2 weeks) No No

Yes (90 days for 2nd retest and

above)

No E + F No None

newfoundland and Labrador 1 6 months resident High School

Equivalency Diploma $30 $30 per battery 450 min. – No No – – 16 19 18 18

Yes (2 days); Exceptions may

applyNo Yes

Yes (90 days recom-

mended)

No E + F No None

northwest Territories 1 6 months resident or Canadian citizen

Northwest Territories High School

Equivalency Diploma$35 $35 per

battery 450 min. – No No – – 16 18 – 18 Yes (3–4 days) No No Yes (180 days)

Yes (instruction) E No None

nova scotia 1 NoneGED High School

Equivalency Certificate

$40.60 $40.60 per battery 450 min. – No No – – 16 19 and 1 year out

of school – 19 No No Yes Yes (90 days) No E + F No None

nunavut 1 ResidentHigh School Equivalency Certificate

$0 $0 450 min. – No No – – 19 19 – 19 No No No Yes (90–180 days) No E + F No None

Ontario 1 Resident Grade 12 Equivalency Certificate $100 $100 per

battery 450 min. – No No – – 18 18 – 18 No No Yes No Yes, if score <400 E + F No None

prince edward island 1 Resident or Canadian citizen

Grade 12 Equivalency Certificate $0 $0 450 min. – No No – – 18 18 16 16 No No Yes No No E + F No None

Quebec 1 Resident or Canadian citizen

Certificat d’Equivalence

d’Etudes Secondaires$0 $0 450 min. – No No – – 16 16 – 16 Yes (2 days) No No Yes

(90 days) No E + F No None

saskatchewan 25 Canadian resident with fixed address GED Diploma $35 $35 per

battery 450 min. – No No – – 16 18 17 17 Yes (1 year) No Yes No No E + F No E + F

Yukon Territory 1Resident or

Canadian citizenSecondary School

Equivalency Certificate

$65 $40 per

battery or subtest

450 min. – No No – – 16 18 16 16 Yes (2 days) No No

Varies by testing

schedule No E + F No None

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Testing FeeRequirements to Receive a Ged

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Required school

Attendance Without

exceptions

Minimum Age for Testing Min.

Age for credential

With exceptions

Time Limit for Battery

completion?

scores ever

expire (Before a new Test series)?

Retesting Language Versions

First Testing

(Battery)Retesting Minimum

scoresOther

Requirementsinstruction Required?

Must Take the

OpT?2OpT Fee

OpT scores

Required to Take the Ged

Test

Without exceptions/ Waiver or Additional

documentation

With exceptions/ Waiver or Additional

documentation1

Must complete

Battery Before Retesting the Failed Area?

Wait period

Required?

Remediation Required?

Language Versions Offered

esL Test Required

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Languages candidates?

Languages with

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insular Areas

American samoa 1 Resident American Samoa High School Diploma

$30 (free if enrolled in

ABE)

$10 per subtest

410 min. & 450 avg. – No

Yes, if enrolled in

ABE$0 410 min. &

450 avg. 18 18 and class graduated 16 18 Yes (2 days) No Yes Yes (30

days)Yes, if enrolled

in ABE E – –

Federated states of Micronesia 4 Resident High School

Equivalency Diploma $25 $25 per battery

410 min. & 450 avg. – No No (other pre-

test required) – – 21 17 – 17 No No Yes No No None – –

Guam 1 Resident High School Equivalency Diploma $33 $9 per subtest 410 min. &

450 avg. – No Yes $33 410 min. & 450 avg. 16 18 16 16 Yes (2 days) Yes (60 days) No

Yes (60 days with

instruction; 180 days otherwise)

Yes, to retest in 60 days E – –

Marshall islands 1 Resident GED Diploma $35 $25 per subtest

410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – 16 19 17 17 Yes (2 half days) No No Yes

(90 days) No E – –

northern Mariana islands 1 Legal resident or

U.S. citizen GED Diploma $20 $20 per battery

410 min. & 450 avg. – No

Varies (CASAS,

OPT)$0 410 min. &

450 avg. 16 18 16 18 Varies by testing schedule No Yes Yes

(90 days) No None – –

palau 1 Resident High School Equivalency Diploma $0 $20 410 min. &

450 avg. – Yes (60 hours) Yes $0 410 min. &

450 avg. 18 18 – 18 NA No NA Varies Yes (instruction) None – –

puerto Rico 10 U.S. citizenDiploma de

Equivalencia de Escuela Superior

$0 $0

Spanish-language version: 410

min. & 2,700 total;

English-language version: 410

min. & 2,250 total

– Yes (180 hours) Yes $0 500 avg. 18 18 and completed

8th grade – 18 Yes (2 days) No Yes Yes (30 days) No E + S Yes NA

Virgin islands 1 None High School Diploma $25 $25 per battery

410 min. & 450 avg. – No

Yes (Math, Writing, and

Reading subtests)

$15 410 min. & 450 avg. 16 16 – 16 NA No No No No E + S No Yes

canada

Alberta 15 Resident High School Equivalency Diploma Varies Varies 450 min. – No No – – 16 18 17 18 No No No Yes

(90 days) No E + F No E + F

British columbia 1 Resident

British Columbia Secondary School

Equivalency Certificate

$60

$40 for 1 subtest, $45 for 2, $50 for 3, $55 for 4

450 min. – No No – – 18 18 – 18 No No No No No E + F No None

Manitoba 1 NoneManitoba Senior

Years Equivalency Diploma

$65$65 per

battery or subtest

450 min. – No No – – 19 19 16 16 Varies by testing schedule No Yes No No E + F No NA

new Brunswick 2 None High School Equivalency Diploma $0

$40 per battery or subtest

450 min. – No No – – 19 19 18 18 Yes (2 weeks) No No

Yes (90 days for 2nd retest and

above)

No E + F No None

newfoundland and Labrador 1 6 months resident High School

Equivalency Diploma $30 $30 per battery 450 min. – No No – – 16 19 18 18

Yes (2 days); Exceptions may

applyNo Yes

Yes (90 days recom-

mended)

No E + F No None

northwest Territories 1 6 months resident or Canadian citizen

Northwest Territories High School

Equivalency Diploma$35 $35 per

battery 450 min. – No No – – 16 18 – 18 Yes (3–4 days) No No Yes (180 days)

Yes (instruction) E No None

nova scotia 1 NoneGED High School

Equivalency Certificate

$40.60 $40.60 per battery 450 min. – No No – – 16 19 and 1 year out

of school – 19 No No Yes Yes (90 days) No E + F No None

nunavut 1 ResidentHigh School Equivalency Certificate

$0 $0 450 min. – No No – – 19 19 – 19 No No No Yes (90–180 days) No E + F No None

Ontario 1 Resident Grade 12 Equivalency Certificate $100 $100 per

battery 450 min. – No No – – 18 18 – 18 No No Yes No Yes, if score <400 E + F No None

prince edward island 1 Resident or Canadian citizen

Grade 12 Equivalency Certificate $0 $0 450 min. – No No – – 18 18 16 16 No No Yes No No E + F No None

Quebec 1 Resident or Canadian citizen

Certificat d’Equivalence

d’Etudes Secondaires$0 $0 450 min. – No No – – 16 16 – 16 Yes (2 days) No No Yes

(90 days) No E + F No None

saskatchewan 25 Canadian resident with fixed address GED Diploma $35 $35 per

battery 450 min. – No No – – 16 18 17 17 Yes (1 year) No Yes No No E + F No E + F

Yukon Territory 1Resident or

Canadian citizenSecondary School

Equivalency Certificate

$65 $40 per

battery or subtest

450 min. – No No – – 16 18 16 16 Yes (2 days) No No

Varies by testing

schedule No E + F No None

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Testing FeeRequirements to Receive a Ged

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Required school

Attendance Without

exceptions

Minimum Age for Testing Min.

Age for credential

With exceptions

Time Limit for Battery

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Retesting Language Versions

First Testing

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scoresOther

Requirementsinstruction Required?

Must Take the

OpT?2OpT Fee

OpT scores

Required to Take the Ged

Test

Without exceptions/ Waiver or Additional

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With exceptions/ Waiver or Additional

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Must complete

Battery Before Retesting the Failed Area?

Wait period

Required?

Remediation Required?

Language Versions Offered

esL Test Required

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Languages candidates?

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See credentialing jurisdiction $0 $0 410 min. &

450 avg. – NoYes, if already

enrolled in the military

$0 450 min. 17 17 – See credentialing jurisdiction Yes (30 days) No No No No E + S

See credentialing jurisdiction

See credentialing jurisdiction

Federal Bureau of prisons 117 Incarcerated in

FBOP facilitySee credentialing

jurisdiction $0 $0 410 min. & 450 avg. –

Varies by readiness

levelYes $0 Varies – 18 – 18 No No Varies Yes

(varies)

Yes (instruction in area(s) of deficiency)

E + S + FYes (40 min);

exceptions may apply

NA

international4 -prometricTM 103 International

studentsSee credentialing

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$139 (Writing) and $113 (other subtests); or $180

(Writing and Reading) and $231 (other 3

subtests)

$139 (Writing) and $113 (other subtests); or $180

(Writing and Reading) and $231 (other 3

subtests)

410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – – 17 16 16 No No No Yes

(90 days) No E – –

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High School Equivalency Certificate

$0 $0 410 min. & 450 avg. – Yes

(hours vary) Yes $0 410 min. on 3 subtests 16 16 – 16 No No No Yes

(30 days)

Yes (instruction in area(s) of deficiency)

E + S No E + S

VA Hospitals 1 None (veterans only; no family members)

High School Equivalency Certificate

$0 $0 410 min. & 450 avg.

Must pass Constitution test

if IL resident

Yes (varies by candidate) Yes $0 410 min. &

450 avg. – NA NA NA No No Yes Yes (30 days)

Yes (instruction) E + S Yes None

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Required school

Attendance Without

exceptions

Minimum Age for Testing Min.

Age for credential

With exceptions

Time Limit for Battery

completion?

scores ever

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Retesting Language Versions

First Testing

(Battery)Retesting Minimum

scoresOther

Requirementsinstruction Required?

Must Take the

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Required to Take the Ged

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With exceptions/ Waiver or Additional

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Battery Before Retesting the Failed Area?

Wait period

Required?

Remediation Required?

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Languages candidates?

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See credentialing jurisdiction $0 $0 410 min. &

450 avg. – NoYes, if already

enrolled in the military

$0 450 min. 17 17 – See credentialing jurisdiction Yes (30 days) No No No No E + S

See credentialing jurisdiction

See credentialing jurisdiction

Federal Bureau of prisons 117 Incarcerated in

FBOP facilitySee credentialing

jurisdiction $0 $0 410 min. & 450 avg. –

Varies by readiness

levelYes $0 Varies – 18 – 18 No No Varies Yes

(varies)

Yes (instruction in area(s) of deficiency)

E + S + FYes (40 min);

exceptions may apply

NA

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studentsSee credentialing

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$139 (Writing) and $113 (other subtests); or $180

(Writing and Reading) and $231 (other 3

subtests)

$139 (Writing) and $113 (other subtests); or $180

(Writing and Reading) and $231 (other 3

subtests)

410 min. & 450 avg. – No No – – – 17 16 16 No No No Yes

(90 days) No E – –

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High School Equivalency Certificate

$0 $0 410 min. & 450 avg. – Yes

(hours vary) Yes $0 410 min. on 3 subtests 16 16 – 16 No No No Yes

(30 days)

Yes (instruction in area(s) of deficiency)

E + S No E + S

VA Hospitals 1 None (veterans only; no family members)

High School Equivalency Certificate

$0 $0 410 min. & 450 avg.

Must pass Constitution test

if IL resident

Yes (varies by candidate) Yes $0 410 min. &

450 avg. – NA NA NA No No Yes Yes (30 days)

Yes (instruction) E + S Yes None

Source: 2009 GED Testing Service® data.

NA = Not available.

– = Not applicable.

E = English.

S = Spanish.

F = French.1. See jurisdictional requirements in the GED Policies and Procedures Manual for exceptions, limitations, and additional fees, or contact

the jurisdictional GED Administrator (listing on pages 34–38).2. OPT = Official GED Practice Tests3. If a candidate takes the Spanish-language version of the test, ESL will be required and an average of 450 is required on these six

tests in order to receive a GED credential.4. Candidates who tested in Bermuda, St. Martin, Cayman Island, and Jamaica must adhere to the Maine testing requirements, but

exceptions may apply on a case-by-case basis.

Note: Information was self-reported by jurisdictional GED Administrators or GED state office staff as of December 31, 2009, and might have changed in the course of 2009. For more information, contact the jurisdictional GED Administrator (listing on pages 34–38).

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(n) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (years)Alabama 15,269 100.0 33.1 35.8 11.7 8.1 4.6 4.6 1.8 0.3 24.3 8.6Alaska 2,725 100.0 35.6 37.1 12.8 4.9 3.6 4.3 1.5 0.1 23.5 8.0Arizona 18,912 100.0 26.3 33.3 14.0 9.3 6.5 7.7 2.4 0.5 26.1 9.6Arkansas 8,509 98.4 40.3 27.1 11.2 7.7 5.0 5.6 2.7 0.4 24.5 9.4california 58,133 100.0 21.6 33.9 13.8 9.7 7.9 9.9 2.9 0.4 27.2 9.9colorado 16,642 100.0 28.6 32.5 14.4 8.6 5.7 7.4 2.4 0.3 25.8 9.3connecticut 5,544 99.9 17.2 41.5 16.0 9.5 6.3 7.3 2.2 0.1 26.2 8.9delaware 902 100.0 22.3 40.9 17.1 9.4 3.5 5.0 1.4 0.3 25.0 8.1district of columbia 999 93.3 22.6 47.3 12.6 6.6 4.6 4.5 1.4 0.3 24.4 7.8Florida 49,542 100.0 36.5 35.2 10.8 6.1 4.4 4.9 1.9 0.3 23.9 8.6Georgia 33,446 99.9 24.1 38.9 13.9 8.6 5.4 6.2 2.4 0.5 25.6 9.3Hawaii 1,995 100.0 52.7 25.7 8.4 5.2 3.0 4.1 1.0 0.1 22.1 7.6idaho 5,809 100.0 35.5 30.5 12.2 7.5 5.2 6.5 2.2 0.3 24.8 9.3illinois 30,162 100.0 25.3 37.1 13.1 8.8 5.9 6.8 2.5 0.4 25.7 9.4indiana 14,947 100.0 28.1 37.3 13.2 7.6 4.8 5.9 2.7 0.4 25.2 9.2iowa 6,351 100.0 26.6 37.2 14.1 8.7 4.8 5.7 2.5 0.3 25.3 8.9Kansas 3,413 100.0 37.9 33.4 12.6 7.7 3.8 3.5 0.8 0.2 23.4 7.6Kentucky 11,200 100.0 29.0 33.6 14.1 9.1 5.3 5.7 2.6 0.6 25.4 9.4Louisiana 11,539 97.6 40.4 33.2 11.0 7.0 3.8 3.3 1.1 0.1 23.0 7.6Maine 4,266 99.9 28.0 40.0 12.3 6.3 4.3 6.0 2.9 0.2 24.9 9.1Maryland 8,942 100.0 30.1 36.9 12.6 6.7 5.0 6.1 2.1 0.5 24.8 9.2Massachusetts 13,306 99.8 27.1 40.0 11.7 6.7 4.9 6.7 2.4 0.5 25.2 9.4Michigan 21,743 99.9 22.4 41.0 13.4 8.8 5.6 6.2 2.4 0.3 25.6 9.0Minnesota 10,254 100.0 13.6 44.2 17.7 9.2 5.6 7.0 2.4 0.3 26.4 8.9Mississippi 15,138 100.0 34.8 33.6 12.8 8.0 4.3 4.2 1.9 0.3 24.2 8.6Missouri 13,508 100.0 37.3 28.9 12.7 7.8 4.8 5.9 2.3 0.3 24.7 9.1Montana 3,502 100.0 40.6 33.1 11.2 5.8 3.1 4.6 1.5 0.2 23.3 8.1nebraska 4,088 100.0 24.1 36.6 15.7 9.8 5.5 6.1 1.9 0.3 25.6 8.7nevada 7,006 100.0 27.7 35.2 13.3 7.9 5.4 7.5 2.8 0.3 25.7 9.5new Hampshire 2,613 98.7 26.6 38.5 13.4 6.6 4.6 7.2 2.4 0.8 25.5 9.6new Jersey 13,548 100.0 26.7 31.3 13.9 9.4 6.8 8.3 3.1 0.4 26.5 10.0new Mexico 9,017 100.0 35.7 33.3 12.4 7.2 4.6 5.0 1.4 0.4 24.1 8.5new York 53,051 100.0 19.6 42.1 13.7 8.3 5.4 7.7 2.7 0.5 26.2 9.7north carolina 28,858 100.0 22.9 33.2 14.2 9.9 6.4 8.6 3.9 0.9 27.2 10.5north dakota 1,694 99.9 35.4 40.7 10.0 6.1 2.9 3.6 1.1 0.2 23.0 7.6Ohio 21,861 99.9 14.9 43.7 16.5 10.2 5.4 6.0 2.7 0.4 26.3 9.1Oklahoma 9,540 100.0 30.7 34.3 14.3 8.0 4.8 5.7 1.8 0.4 24.8 8.8Oregon 15,363 100.0 34.0 29.3 11.8 8.2 6.0 7.9 2.5 0.2 25.4 9.7pennsylvania 25,343 100.0 23.1 38.5 13.7 8.5 6.0 6.8 2.9 0.5 26.0 9.5Rhode island 2,684 99.8 31.6 38.8 12.9 5.7 4.3 5.0 1.5 0.2 24.0 8.2south carolina 10,055 99.9 29.9 38.2 11.8 7.6 4.5 5.0 2.4 0.7 24.8 9.3south dakota 1,975 100.0 31.6 36.5 14.7 5.9 3.6 5.1 2.4 0.2 24.4 8.6Tennessee 15,647 100.0 22.0 34.8 15.8 9.9 6.8 7.3 2.9 0.5 26.7 9.6Texas 54,337 99.6 26.2 33.3 14.0 9.4 6.5 7.4 2.8 0.4 26.1 9.6Utah 7,253 100.0 34.8 38.4 11.2 6.5 3.4 4.3 1.4 0.1 23.5 7.8Vermont 1,404 99.9 44.7 35.5 8.0 3.6 2.1 3.1 2.4 0.4 22.6 8.4Virginia 24,186 100.0 30.2 30.9 12.6 8.1 5.7 7.9 3.7 1.0 26.3 10.6Washington 23,360 95.3 26.4 37.1 13.9 8.2 5.6 6.4 2.1 0.2 25.3 9.0West Virginia 6,110 100.0 35.6 34.3 11.8 7.1 4.6 4.9 1.3 0.3 23.9 8.4Wisconsin 18,109 99.9 24.5 32.2 16.1 10.0 6.5 7.6 2.7 0.4 26.5 9.5Wyoming 1,960 99.7 32.7 36.3 13.4 6.5 3.5 6.0 1.5 0.2 24.2 8.4

U.s. subtotal 745,760 99.7 27.1 35.8 13.4 8.4 5.6 6.8 2.5 0.4 25.6 9.4

American samoa 32 100.0 28.1 56.3 9.4 0.0 6.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 21.7 4.9Federated states of Micronesia 7 100.0 0.0 14.3 28.6 57.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 29.8 4.1

Guam 221 100.0 22.2 45.7 13.1 9.5 5.9 3.2 0.5 0.0 24.0 6.9Marshall islands 49 100.0 16.3 63.3 12.2 2.0 4.1 2.0 0.0 0.0 23.0 5.6northern Mariana islands 37 100.0 18.9 45.9 5.4 8.1 18.9 2.7 0.0 0.0 25.9 7.9

palau 72 100.0 18.1 55.6 8.3 8.3 6.9 2.8 0.0 0.0 23.7 6.4puerto Rico NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NAVirgin islands 212 100.0 30.2 34.0 9.9 5.7 9.9 7.5 1.9 0.9 25.9 10.4

insular Areas subtotal 630 100.0 23.8 44.4 11.0 7.5 7.9 4.3 0.8 0.3 24.6 8.1

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(n) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (years)Alberta 2,175 100.0 2.2 33.0 20.6 14.4 9.7 13.9 5.7 0.5 31.1 10.0British columbia 1,251 87.2 5.4 27.2 15.6 15.0 12.9 19.0 4.4 0.5 32.1 10.2Manitoba 242 100.0 1.7 28.5 18.2 12.0 12.4 19.4 7.9 0.0 32.9 10.4new Brunswick 1,549 100.0 2.0 38.2 14.9 10.5 9.2 16.8 7.5 0.8 31.6 11.3newfoundland and Labrador 209 100.0 1.0 43.1 10.0 7.7 14.8 16.7 6.7 0.0 31.2 11.0

northwest Territories 26 100.0 0.0 57.7 15.4 3.8 7.7 15.4 0.0 0.0 27.4 9.2nova scotia 1,078 100.0 0.0 36.8 15.1 9.6 8.7 20.3 8.7 0.6 32.7 11.5nunavut 59 100.0 6.8 27.1 20.3 15.3 11.9 15.3 3.4 0.0 30.2 9.6Ontario 5,325 100.0 2.3 38.8 14.4 9.2 9.0 17.6 8.0 0.6 31.8 11.3prince edward island 398 100.0 6.5 29.6 13.1 7.3 8.5 19.8 12.8 2.3 34.1 13.0Quebec 232 99.6 13.4 50.4 13.4 5.6 7.8 6.5 3.0 0.0 26.1 8.9saskatchewan 1,378 100.0 6.6 32.9 17.5 12.4 9.2 14.9 5.6 0.9 30.9 10.8Yukon Territory 30 100.0 13.3 30.0 20.0 16.7 10.0 6.7 3.3 0.0 28.8 8.8

canada subtotal 13,952 98.7 3.1 35.8 15.9 11.0 9.6 16.9 7.1 0.7 31.6 11.0

dAnTes 5,371 100.0 29.2 56.8 9.1 3.2 1.3 0.4 0.0 0.0 21.4 4.0Federal Bureau of prisons 9,542 99.9 0.1 13.2 25.1 23.0 16.0 16.6 4.8 1.3 34.1 9.0

international 2,746 99.4 59.6 31.8 3.9 1.8 0.8 1.1 0.6 0.3 20.2 5.6Michigan prisons 3,904 100.0 5.2 31.2 20.2 12.4 10.2 14.6 5.1 1.0 31.1 10.5VA Hospitals 3 * * * * * * * * * * *inter-Regional contracts subtotal 21,566 99.9 15.8 29.7 17.6 13.4 9.3 10.2 3.1 0.8 28.6 10.0

program Total 781,908 99.7 26.3 35.6 13.6 8.6 5.8 7.0 2.6 0.4 25.8 9.5

Source: 2009 GED Testing Service® data.

NA = Not available.

* = Not reported due to small numbers.

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Alabama 15,269 100.0 53.2 46.8Alaska 2,721 99.9 61.5 38.5Arizona 18,912 100.0 58.7 41.3Arkansas 8,511 98.4 59.5 40.5california 57,685 99.2 59.8 40.2colorado 16,643 100.0 58.6 41.4connecticut 5,548 100.0 61.6 38.4delaware 902 100.0 63.9 36.1district of columbia 980 91.5 59.3 40.7Florida 49,534 100.0 57.3 42.7Georgia 33,373 99.7 55.2 44.8Hawaii 1,985 99.5 59.0 41.0idaho 5,808 100.0 58.4 41.6illinois 29,548 98.0 55.1 44.9indiana 14,769 98.8 59.3 40.7iowa 6,351 100.0 56.7 43.3Kansas 3,413 100.0 57.5 42.5Kentucky 11,201 100.0 59.7 40.3Louisiana 11,800 99.8 58.0 42.0Maine 4,120 96.5 59.3 40.7Maryland 8,942 100.0 61.5 38.5Massachusetts 13,216 99.2 53.6 46.4Michigan 21,549 99.1 55.6 44.4Minnesota 10,175 99.2 62.8 37.2Mississippi 15,096 99.7 53.2 46.8Missouri 13,508 100.0 59.2 40.8Montana 3,481 99.4 56.2 43.8nebraska 4,060 99.3 55.8 44.2nevada 6,981 99.6 57.7 42.3new Hampshire 2,581 97.5 61.5 38.5new Jersey 13,550 100.0 53.3 46.7new Mexico 8,980 99.6 52.2 47.8new York 52,675 99.3 52.9 47.1north carolina 28,854 100.0 57.6 42.4north dakota 1,681 99.2 57.8 42.2Ohio 21,849 99.9 56.4 43.6Oklahoma 9,507 99.7 54.8 45.2Oregon 15,365 100.0 59.0 41.0pennsylvania 25,298 99.8 57.4 42.6Rhode island 2,685 99.9 57.0 43.0south carolina 9,972 99.1 57.0 43.0south dakota 1,971 99.8 60.4 39.6Tennessee 15,644 100.0 54.6 45.4Texas 54,251 99.5 55.0 45.0Utah 7,253 100.0 58.1 41.9Vermont 1,394 99.1 59.1 40.9Virginia 24,185 100.0 58.5 41.5Washington 23,001 93.8 58.2 41.8West Virginia 5,816 95.2 57.7 42.3Wisconsin 17,964 99.1 61.5 38.5Wyoming 1,955 99.5 58.2 41.8

U.s. subtotal 742,512 99.3 57.0 43.0

American samoa 32 100.0 40.6 59.4Federated states of Micronesia 7 100.0 42.9 57.1Guam 221 100.0 55.7 44.3Marshall islands 49 100.0 61.2 38.8northern Mariana islands 36 97.3 66.7 33.3palau 70 97.2 55.7 44.3puerto Rico 4,140 100.0 59.0 41.0Virgin islands 208 98.1 52.4 47.6

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canada subtotal 13,714 97.0 60.8 39.2

dAnTes 5,371 100.0 87.3 12.7Federal Bureau of prisons 9,378 98.1 88.3 11.7international 1,939 70.2 57.5 42.5Michigan prisons 3,825 98.0 94.9 5.1VA Hospitals 3 * * *inter-Regional contracts subtotal 20,516 95.0 86.4 13.6

program Total 781,505 99.1 57.8 42.2

Source: 2009 GED Testing Service® data.

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American samoa 28 87.5 0.0 0.0 3.6 0.0 89.3 7.1Federated states of Micronesia 7 100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0 0.0

Guam 218 98.6 1.8 0.0 22.0 0.5 72.0 3.7Marshall islands 47 95.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 97.9 2.1northern Mariana islands 36 97.3 0.0 0.0 25.0 0.0 72.2 2.8palau 68 94.4 0.0 0.0 1.5 0.0 95.6 2.9puerto Rico NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NAVirgin islands 203 95.8 7.9 0.0 0.0 84.7 0.5 6.4

insular Areas subtotal 607 96.3 3.3 0.0 9.7 28.5 53.9 4.4

dAnTes 5,270 98.1 12.3 1.7 1.8 11.7 1.2 71.4Federal Bureau of prisons 6,180 64.7 26.0 2.2 0.9 53.2 0.5 17.0international NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NAMichigan prisons 3,323 85.1 5.0 1.4 0.5 62.6 0.2 30.3VA Hospitals 3 * * * * * * *inter-Regional contracts subtotal 14,776 78.4 16.4 1.9 1.1 40.5 0.7 39.4

program Total 702,503 92.3 20.1 2.5 1.8 24.7 0.7 50.2

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NA = Not available.

* = Not reported due to small numbers.1. Canadian data on ethnicity were not available because of legal restrictions on collecting such data.2. Percentages of candidates of other races are not reported because such percentages are below one percent in all jurisdictions.

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Alabama 14,755 96.6 0.2 0.5 2.1 8.9 19.8 27.7 29.8 11.1 11Alaska 2,619 96.1 0.4 0.8 1.1 7.4 18.8 29.1 35.4 6.9 11Arizona 17,425 92.1 0.8 0.9 1.1 7.7 15.7 25.6 38.2 9.9 11Arkansas 8,364 96.7 0.3 0.7 1.9 7.4 17.7 29.7 36.1 6.3 11california 51,757 89.0 0.7 1.2 0.7 3.2 10.2 20.7 46.5 16.8 11colorado 16,643 100.0 0.9 1.5 1.2 7.2 17.1 27.3 36.0 8.8 11connecticut 5,455 98.3 0.3 0.4 0.6 6.4 22.0 30.9 32.9 6.5 11delaware 895 99.2 0.0 0.3 1.2 13.9 23.6 30.8 25.5 4.7 10district of columbia 978 91.3 0.6 0.7 0.9 8.0 18.0 26.3 39.1 6.4 11Florida 49,481 99.9 2.2 0.5 1.3 7.4 16.5 25.1 33.4 13.6 11Georgia NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NAHawaii 1,948 97.6 0.7 0.3 0.7 8.5 18.8 29.3 36.3 5.4 11idaho 4,943 85.1 1.1 0.7 1.5 7.8 17.7 29.6 34.6 7.1 11illinois 25,236 83.7 0.5 1.2 0.9 6.9 17.2 28.3 36.6 8.3 11indiana 8,525 57.0 0.4 0.6 1.7 14.4 29.1 51.6 1.9 0.3 10iowa 6,048 95.2 0.3 0.5 0.8 6.9 16.7 31.8 39.3 3.8 11Kansas 3,290 96.4 0.5 0.4 0.8 6.3 18.0 32.2 35.8 6.1 11Kentucky 10,869 97.0 0.4 0.6 1.3 9.7 21.6 30.8 31.8 3.8 11Louisiana 11,579 98.0 0.3 1.1 3.7 14.1 22.7 26.6 27.2 4.3 11Maine 3,999 93.7 0.3 0.4 1.2 11.3 19.6 29.0 33.6 4.7 11Maryland 8,292 92.7 0.5 0.3 1.2 9.3 21.0 30.1 31.4 6.1 11Massachusetts 11,158 83.7 0.7 0.6 1.2 9.6 21.9 28.6 30.1 7.3 11Michigan 20,257 93.1 0.3 0.3 0.8 6.6 17.8 31.6 37.7 5.0 11Minnesota 9,257 90.3 0.3 0.4 0.7 3.9 12.5 26.4 47.0 8.8 11Mississippi 14,535 96.0 0.3 0.9 3.2 12.7 23.8 27.7 25.1 6.3 10Missouri 12,463 92.3 0.4 0.3 1.1 7.5 18.1 31.5 35.9 5.1 11Montana 3,293 94.0 0.5 0.6 1.2 8.7 19.2 30.8 33.4 5.5 11nebraska 3,940 96.4 0.4 1.2 0.9 6.2 17.3 29.2 35.2 9.5 11nevada 5,900 84.2 0.7 0.6 0.7 5.4 14.2 26.5 38.8 13.2 11new Hampshire 2,456 92.8 0.4 0.4 1.4 8.7 20.3 31.1 33.7 4.1 11new Jersey 12,573 92.8 0.9 0.7 1.0 6.3 16.8 28.4 35.6 10.1 11new Mexico 8,421 93.4 0.4 1.0 1.0 7.1 19.5 28.2 31.6 11.1 11new York NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NAnorth carolina 25,260 87.5 0.6 0.8 3.0 14.1 26.1 29.4 22.8 3.2 10north dakota 1,604 94.6 0.4 0.3 0.9 8.4 21.6 32.1 33.8 2.6 11Ohio 21,845 99.9 1.2 0.3 0.8 7.3 16.8 29.1 38.6 6.1 11Oklahoma 9,147 95.9 0.4 0.9 1.5 9.9 21.4 30.0 32.0 3.8 11Oregon 13,959 90.8 1.4 1.3 1.2 6.7 15.7 28.4 36.5 8.8 11pennsylvania 23,582 93.0 0.4 0.4 0.9 6.6 18.1 30.1 35.3 8.2 11Rhode island 2,520 93.7 0.2 0.6 1.0 9.7 21.1 30.0 31.7 5.7 11south carolina 9,754 96.9 0.1 0.4 1.0 9.0 23.1 31.9 29.7 4.8 10south dakota 1,918 97.1 0.1 0.5 1.0 9.5 23.0 30.1 33.3 2.4 11Tennessee 15,012 95.9 0.3 0.4 1.1 6.7 16.7 29.5 39.3 6.1 11Texas 51,033 93.6 0.8 1.5 1.6 10.2 21.7 26.0 27.9 10.4 11Utah 5,671 78.2 0.9 0.7 0.9 3.5 9.2 22.7 45.4 16.7 11Vermont 1,289 91.7 0.1 0.2 0.6 8.5 18.9 30.6 36.4 4.8 11Virginia 23,037 95.2 0.4 0.5 1.8 9.5 21.0 29.2 31.7 5.7 11Washington 22,180 90.5 1.1 1.1 1.2 5.6 15.0 27.5 38.8 9.7 11West Virginia 5,851 95.7 0.1 0.2 0.8 5.1 14.6 25.0 31.0 23.3 11Wisconsin 16,078 88.7 0.5 0.6 0.7 6.5 15.0 26.9 44.1 5.7 11Wyoming 1,909 97.2 0.6 0.8 1.2 6.3 18.3 31.1 36.6 5.0 11

U.s. subtotal 609,003 92.1 0.7 0.8 1.3 7.9 18.1 27.9 34.5 8.8 11

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American samoa 31 96.9 3.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 9.7 16.1 61.3 9.7 11Federated states of Micronesia 7 100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 42.9 14.3 14.3 28.6 9

Guam 218 98.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.8 12.4 34.9 43.6 6.4 11Marshall islands 49 100.0 2.0 0.0 2.0 6.1 10.2 24.5 32.7 22.4 11northern Mariana islands 36 97.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.6 13.9 25.0 50.0 5.6 11palau 64 88.9 0.0 0.0 1.6 9.4 21.9 42.2 25.0 0.0 10puerto Rico NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NAVirgin islands 206 97.2 0.0 0.5 1.5 10.2 18.4 21.4 26.7 21.4 11

insular Areas subtotal 611 97.0 0.3 0.2 0.8 6.2 15.5 28.5 36.0 12.4 11

dAnTes 5,299 98.7 0.1 0.1 0.2 1.9 14.2 28.1 48.2 7.2 11Federal Bureau of prisons 8,411 88.0 1.0 2.2 2.8 12.1 22.9 26.0 26.1 7.0 11international 1,716 62.1 3.0 0.5 0.9 2.5 9.8 30.5 32.8 19.9 11Michigan prisons 3,320 85.0 0.5 1.4 2.1 9.9 19.8 29.5 31.2 5.7 11VA Hospitals 3 * * * * * * * * * *inter-Regional contracts subtotal 18,749 86.8 0.8 1.3 1.8 8.0 18.7 27.6 33.8 8.0 11

program Total 628,363 91.9 0.7 0.8 1.3 7.9 18.1 27.9 34.5 8.7 11

Source: 2009 GED Testing Service® data.

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U.s. subtotal 575,016 82.8 11.1 16.2 11.2 17.5 15.6 17.0 11.3 8.0 9.3

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Guam 214 96.8 5.1 15.0 17.8 23.8 15.0 17.3 6.1 6.6 6.8Marshall islands 49 100.0 12.2 6.1 22.4 22.4 26.5 8.2 2.0 5.1 5.2northern Mariana islands 33 89.2 0.0 15.2 12.1 15.2 27.3 24.2 6.1 8.5 7.1palau 62 86.1 3.2 12.9 17.7 29.0 22.6 12.9 1.6 5.4 5.0puerto Rico NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NAVirgin islands 198 93.4 9.1 21.2 13.1 19.2 9.6 14.6 13.1 8.0 10.1

insular Areas subtotal 585 92.9 6.5 16.1 16.2 22.1 16.1 15.7 7.4 6.9 7.8

dAnTes 4,985 92.8 9.4 24.0 18.9 25.5 14.5 6.9 0.8 3.9 4.5Federal Bureau of prisons 6,681 69.9 1.2 0.6 1.0 5.6 17.8 43.6 30.2 16.9 9.6international 1,534 55.5 27.1 28.4 14.5 14.5 7.9 5.0 2.8 3.3 6.1Michigan prisons 2,975 76.2 2.0 4.8 5.7 16.3 19.5 27.6 24.2 13.4 10.6VA Hospitals 3 * * * * * * * * * *inter-Regional contracts subtotal 16,178 74.9 6.3 11.2 8.7 14.5 16.2 25.7 17.5 11.0 10.3

program Total 591,779 82.5 10.9 16.1 11.2 17.4 15.7 17.3 11.5 8.1 9.4

Source: 2009 GED Testing Service® data.

NA = Not available.

* = Not reported due to small numbers.1. Canadian data on years out of school were not available because of legal restrictions on collecting such data.

Notes: Caution should be exercised in interpreting results when response rate is below 85 percent.

Due to rounding procedures, sums of percentages may not equal 100 percent.

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educational Reasons Military Reasons employment Reasons social Reasons personal ReasonsAny

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Job Training

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(n) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%)Alabama 14,816 97.0 23.7 37.0 18.6 7.2 8.5 64.7 7.3 4.0 9.0 8.6 2.0 40.1 6.6 49.6 1.8 3.2 0.6 5.2 20.6 42.1 46.2 14.9Alaska 2,513 92.2 16.4 12.8 17.0 11.3 18.1 48.3 7.0 4.2 8.4 10.8 2.1 42.7 8.7 54.9 4.2 1.8 2.1 7.5 19.9 52.0 55.3 23.6Arizona 17,049 90.1 16.1 23.5 16.8 9.0 8.9 53.4 5.2 2.3 5.9 9.6 3.0 39.8 8.4 51.9 2.8 3.3 0.9 6.5 23.1 48.5 52.6 12.0Arkansas 8,333 96.4 24.1 26.3 16.9 6.9 7.4 55.6 5.5 3.2 6.7 10.1 2.0 38.2 7.6 49.8 8.6 6.6 0.6 14.4 22.7 53.7 56.9 19.6california 52,192 89.8 17.2 28.6 17.6 9.9 9.5 56.8 4.4 1.7 4.9 10.6 2.3 38.2 10.6 50.7 2.5 1.1 1.5 4.9 22.8 49.1 52.3 15.6colorado 16,641 100.0 19.4 26.2 16.4 10.3 10.1 54.8 4.4 1.9 4.9 8.4 2.4 41.7 8.4 51.0 4.1 5.4 2.1 10.9 22.6 53.2 56.5 16.5connecticut 5,548 100.0 18.9 30.3 21.1 11.5 10.7 67.1 3.1 1.5 3.7 0.0 2.2 7.1 10.4 17.8 3.3 2.0 1.1 5.5 16.4 41.9 44.9 13.3delaware 895 99.2 26.3 32.6 27.9 10.1 9.7 68.6 5.7 1.9 6.0 7.5 2.6 45.6 8.7 55.8 0.9 3.9 0.8 5.0 29.8 60.0 64.2 10.6district of columbia 878 82.0 36.8 23.6 17.8 12.6 13.3 68.0 2.7 2.5 4.2 12.6 2.6 38.4 11.2 52.6 3.3 2.1 0.3 5.6 21.0 38.3 42.9 16.2Florida 47,913 96.7 25.4 33.3 22.9 7.0 9.1 67.6 7.3 3.7 8.4 7.7 1.7 33.6 8.0 40.3 2.3 1.5 0.4 4.1 18.5 44.8 47.9 16.7Georgia 26,983 80.6 19.8 25.9 34.0 7.1 6.6 67.5 5.9 3.3 7.3 7.9 2.2 35.1 5.2 44.9 2.2 3.1 0.4 5.3 17.0 37.2 41.2 4.6Hawaii 1,953 97.9 33.6 34.6 11.4 8.7 9.0 63.6 12.7 7.1 14.7 15.3 2.0 35.0 9.8 51.3 6.2 2.5 0.6 8.6 20.5 47.0 51.1 19.4idaho 4,938 85.0 24.2 25.3 15.3 8.4 9.1 54.1 6.1 2.8 6.7 9.1 2.4 39.5 7.3 49.4 1.7 11.6 0.7 13.3 22.4 55.0 57.5 19.7illinois 25,828 85.6 10.1 19.0 96.9 10.4 10.1 98.5 4.1 3.5 6.5 8.2 15.0 17.7 10.9 41.6 4.1 5.3 13.8 19.2 22.4 14.7 29.0 2.3indiana 14,579 97.5 23.6 32.5 19.5 9.4 9.3 62.3 5.6 2.8 6.5 8.6 2.2 48.5 10.2 58.9 10.1 5.3 0.5 14.5 26.3 56.7 59.9 15.6iowa 5,154 81.2 14.3 32.4 11.0 5.7 6.6 49.8 3.8 1.5 4.4 6.5 1.5 43.9 6.6 51.6 1.5 10.9 4.2 16.2 21.5 56.6 59.8 16.0Kansas 3,288 96.3 23.1 32.0 21.0 9.5 9.2 63.4 5.3 4.0 6.9 7.1 2.0 45.1 5.7 52.9 2.9 7.4 1.4 10.6 24.7 55.2 58.0 12.1Kentucky 10,699 95.5 21.8 26.7 20.2 8.4 12.0 58.5 4.3 2.5 5.0 10.3 2.3 40.2 6.7 50.7 4.6 4.4 0.8 9.4 22.6 53.2 56.2 13.6Louisiana 11,208 94.8 23.7 23.3 32.5 9.4 9.8 66.9 6.5 3.9 7.8 9.9 1.6 36.4 7.7 47.8 5.0 3.0 0.5 7.9 22.6 46.6 50.7 15.5Maine 4,068 95.3 18.1 26.6 17.8 8.0 15.0 57.1 6.1 3.2 7.2 8.4 1.7 43.9 8.3 53.7 0.7 1.2 2.7 4.6 20.9 55.1 58.0 15.4Maryland 8,290 92.7 27.0 29.9 20.1 9.9 10.0 63.0 5.8 3.0 6.7 8.5 2.0 42.5 10.1 53.3 2.2 2.7 0.2 4.6 22.6 47.9 51.8 14.6Massachusetts 11,065 83.0 24.3 35.5 20.0 11.5 12.9 68.1 4.0 1.7 4.5 8.2 1.8 40.1 8.0 49.2 1.0 2.1 2.4 5.3 21.2 45.3 49.1 14.1Michigan 20,187 92.8 21.3 32.0 16.0 9.1 11.1 59.6 5.3 2.4 6.1 11.2 2.2 42.4 9.2 55.3 1.8 7.2 1.1 9.6 24.7 52.9 56.7 15.4Minnesota 8,982 87.6 20.4 34.8 24.8 9.0 8.8 64.0 4.3 1.9 4.9 5.8 2.0 46.2 9.0 53.5 0.6 2.4 2.2 5.0 23.0 54.0 57.6 15.0Mississippi 14,495 95.7 24.8 45.6 17.9 8.9 10.8 69.7 6.8 4.1 8.3 11.7 2.3 42.4 8.6 54.6 2.1 3.4 0.6 5.8 23.9 43.9 49.8 15.8Missouri 12,179 90.2 24.9 31.0 21.3 8.6 9.5 61.8 5.6 3.0 6.5 7.8 2.4 44.4 8.0 53.0 2.8 5.7 0.5 8.4 27.0 57.5 60.8 21.3Montana 3,275 93.5 21.7 23.3 17.0 8.4 12.2 57.5 7.0 3.6 8.4 7.0 2.2 40.0 8.5 49.0 2.1 6.9 1.8 10.3 18.8 51.6 54.2 18.2nebraska 3,982 97.4 21.9 36.3 15.8 8.8 8.4 60.3 4.6 1.9 5.2 6.5 2.5 52.1 8.4 59.2 2.7 5.6 1.1 9.0 29.1 61.3 64.6 15.7nevada 5,930 84.6 17.1 22.7 16.2 8.7 9.0 50.2 5.9 2.3 6.4 7.9 2.7 40.8 11.7 51.2 4.6 3.3 0.9 8.2 20.9 48.4 51.4 17.9new Hampshire 2,433 91.9 15.9 26.4 21.9 8.3 8.9 53.5 5.9 2.8 7.0 6.2 1.6 43.7 8.5 51.9 4.1 3.0 1.5 8.1 19.5 55.4 58.0 18.2new Jersey 12,549 92.6 26.8 34.9 26.9 13.4 14.5 72.5 4.3 2.4 5.1 9.4 2.6 42.7 9.5 52.8 1.3 1.6 1.5 4.1 25.6 48.9 53.4 11.6new Mexico 8,465 93.9 25.9 27.1 16.4 9.6 11.1 61.7 4.9 2.5 5.6 7.8 2.5 43.3 9.1 52.6 3.1 2.7 0.9 6.1 22.0 47.6 51.1 17.0new York NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NAnorth carolina 24,719 85.7 17.3 32.5 19.7 8.6 8.8 60.9 6.9 2.7 8.0 8.2 1.6 39.3 6.6 48.5 4.9 4.3 1.2 9.7 22.2 47.2 50.9 13.2north dakota 1,597 94.2 20.4 29.8 16.4 5.1 7.0 55.2 5.7 2.4 6.4 7.0 2.4 38.3 15.3 54.7 4.3 3.6 1.8 8.9 17.2 47.8 51.2 16.0Ohio 15,572 71.2 22.1 40.2 24.3 6.5 11.7 69.2 4.2 2.0 5.0 6.5 2.1 36.0 5.2 43.6 1.7 4.8 0.9 7.0 24.4 43.8 49.7 12.9Oklahoma 9,173 96.2 17.7 20.3 23.4 8.4 10.1 54.3 5.7 3.2 6.9 7.1 2.8 42.1 8.2 51.5 6.7 7.9 1.6 13.4 24.0 52.7 55.9 18.0Oregon 13,686 89.1 18.8 32.3 14.0 11.2 12.1 58.0 3.6 1.6 4.1 13.3 1.8 39.9 8.1 53.5 2.9 2.3 1.4 6.3 21.4 54.1 56.7 20.5pennsylvania 23,564 93.0 18.7 24.9 26.5 10.3 13.2 61.2 4.1 2.1 4.8 8.8 2.5 45.0 10.6 55.3 2.9 5.9 1.7 9.6 24.4 51.0 55.5 12.9Rhode island NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NAsouth carolina 9,615 95.5 21.3 33.9 34.5 10.1 11.8 71.8 9.7 5.2 11.4 9.4 2.0 41.8 9.7 53.1 1.1 2.5 0.6 4.0 23.3 46.7 50.8 11.0south dakota 1,938 98.1 19.1 23.3 18.2 7.0 13.3 55.2 7.7 3.0 8.7 7.3 2.3 41.9 8.7 49.3 2.7 7.6 1.0 10.6 20.1 51.3 53.9 23.2Tennessee 14,965 95.6 21.4 26.5 25.6 7.4 8.5 60.9 4.7 2.2 5.6 7.9 1.8 44.6 7.8 54.0 3.2 3.4 1.1 7.3 23.0 48.6 52.3 15.6Texas 51,409 94.2 21.4 30.8 20.2 11.4 10.7 60.8 5.2 2.5 5.9 9.3 2.8 44.6 9.4 54.5 3.7 8.6 0.6 12.5 26.5 49.1 53.6 15.5Utah 5,054 69.7 21.2 22.7 18.4 10.6 11.2 55.3 4.9 2.2 5.4 5.8 2.8 41.2 9.3 48.9 2.1 5.8 1.5 8.9 20.7 53.6 55.7 20.8Vermont 665 47.3 23.5 28.0 23.2 16.7 19.2 63.6 8.1 4.2 9.0 17.9 2.0 55.0 15.0 72.2 1.2 1.5 2.7 5.3 28.7 74.7 78.9 21.8Virginia 22,709 93.9 18.1 30.0 17.6 9.4 10.2 55.9 8.1 4.8 9.8 9.0 2.5 43.1 8.0 53.0 3.1 3.1 1.0 6.2 22.3 50.2 54.0 14.5Washington 16,930 69.1 16.9 32.5 19.0 11.9 12.8 60.5 5.9 3.8 7.8 13.8 4.4 40.8 11.7 55.9 2.8 4.6 5.8 11.0 18.1 45.6 49.1 16.6West Virginia 5,882 96.3 20.9 21.8 21.1 10.8 14.3 57.0 6.1 4.2 7.4 12.4 2.1 46.4 9.4 58.6 3.9 6.6 3.0 11.9 22.1 50.1 52.8 17.5Wisconsin 15,525 85.6 15.3 25.9 27.6 10.0 9.6 57.1 3.6 1.9 4.3 6.4 1.9 43.6 7.9 50.8 2.3 3.9 1.2 6.9 22.8 54.4 57.9 20.3Wyoming 1,906 97.0 18.5 27.7 10.1 8.0 9.4 49.9 5.0 2.4 5.9 4.8 2.5 42.2 5.5 49.3 1.5 11.6 1.2 13.5 17.8 48.6 51.9 15.9

U.s. subtotal 622,217 89.9 20.4 29.6 24.2 9.3 10.2 62.8 5.5 2.8 6.5 8.9 2.8 39.6 8.7 50.4 3.1 4.2 1.7 8.4 22.5 47.5 51.7 14.7

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(n) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%)Alabama 14,816 97.0 23.7 37.0 18.6 7.2 8.5 64.7 7.3 4.0 9.0 8.6 2.0 40.1 6.6 49.6 1.8 3.2 0.6 5.2 20.6 42.1 46.2 14.9Alaska 2,513 92.2 16.4 12.8 17.0 11.3 18.1 48.3 7.0 4.2 8.4 10.8 2.1 42.7 8.7 54.9 4.2 1.8 2.1 7.5 19.9 52.0 55.3 23.6Arizona 17,049 90.1 16.1 23.5 16.8 9.0 8.9 53.4 5.2 2.3 5.9 9.6 3.0 39.8 8.4 51.9 2.8 3.3 0.9 6.5 23.1 48.5 52.6 12.0Arkansas 8,333 96.4 24.1 26.3 16.9 6.9 7.4 55.6 5.5 3.2 6.7 10.1 2.0 38.2 7.6 49.8 8.6 6.6 0.6 14.4 22.7 53.7 56.9 19.6california 52,192 89.8 17.2 28.6 17.6 9.9 9.5 56.8 4.4 1.7 4.9 10.6 2.3 38.2 10.6 50.7 2.5 1.1 1.5 4.9 22.8 49.1 52.3 15.6colorado 16,641 100.0 19.4 26.2 16.4 10.3 10.1 54.8 4.4 1.9 4.9 8.4 2.4 41.7 8.4 51.0 4.1 5.4 2.1 10.9 22.6 53.2 56.5 16.5connecticut 5,548 100.0 18.9 30.3 21.1 11.5 10.7 67.1 3.1 1.5 3.7 0.0 2.2 7.1 10.4 17.8 3.3 2.0 1.1 5.5 16.4 41.9 44.9 13.3delaware 895 99.2 26.3 32.6 27.9 10.1 9.7 68.6 5.7 1.9 6.0 7.5 2.6 45.6 8.7 55.8 0.9 3.9 0.8 5.0 29.8 60.0 64.2 10.6district of columbia 878 82.0 36.8 23.6 17.8 12.6 13.3 68.0 2.7 2.5 4.2 12.6 2.6 38.4 11.2 52.6 3.3 2.1 0.3 5.6 21.0 38.3 42.9 16.2Florida 47,913 96.7 25.4 33.3 22.9 7.0 9.1 67.6 7.3 3.7 8.4 7.7 1.7 33.6 8.0 40.3 2.3 1.5 0.4 4.1 18.5 44.8 47.9 16.7Georgia 26,983 80.6 19.8 25.9 34.0 7.1 6.6 67.5 5.9 3.3 7.3 7.9 2.2 35.1 5.2 44.9 2.2 3.1 0.4 5.3 17.0 37.2 41.2 4.6Hawaii 1,953 97.9 33.6 34.6 11.4 8.7 9.0 63.6 12.7 7.1 14.7 15.3 2.0 35.0 9.8 51.3 6.2 2.5 0.6 8.6 20.5 47.0 51.1 19.4idaho 4,938 85.0 24.2 25.3 15.3 8.4 9.1 54.1 6.1 2.8 6.7 9.1 2.4 39.5 7.3 49.4 1.7 11.6 0.7 13.3 22.4 55.0 57.5 19.7illinois 25,828 85.6 10.1 19.0 96.9 10.4 10.1 98.5 4.1 3.5 6.5 8.2 15.0 17.7 10.9 41.6 4.1 5.3 13.8 19.2 22.4 14.7 29.0 2.3indiana 14,579 97.5 23.6 32.5 19.5 9.4 9.3 62.3 5.6 2.8 6.5 8.6 2.2 48.5 10.2 58.9 10.1 5.3 0.5 14.5 26.3 56.7 59.9 15.6iowa 5,154 81.2 14.3 32.4 11.0 5.7 6.6 49.8 3.8 1.5 4.4 6.5 1.5 43.9 6.6 51.6 1.5 10.9 4.2 16.2 21.5 56.6 59.8 16.0Kansas 3,288 96.3 23.1 32.0 21.0 9.5 9.2 63.4 5.3 4.0 6.9 7.1 2.0 45.1 5.7 52.9 2.9 7.4 1.4 10.6 24.7 55.2 58.0 12.1Kentucky 10,699 95.5 21.8 26.7 20.2 8.4 12.0 58.5 4.3 2.5 5.0 10.3 2.3 40.2 6.7 50.7 4.6 4.4 0.8 9.4 22.6 53.2 56.2 13.6Louisiana 11,208 94.8 23.7 23.3 32.5 9.4 9.8 66.9 6.5 3.9 7.8 9.9 1.6 36.4 7.7 47.8 5.0 3.0 0.5 7.9 22.6 46.6 50.7 15.5Maine 4,068 95.3 18.1 26.6 17.8 8.0 15.0 57.1 6.1 3.2 7.2 8.4 1.7 43.9 8.3 53.7 0.7 1.2 2.7 4.6 20.9 55.1 58.0 15.4Maryland 8,290 92.7 27.0 29.9 20.1 9.9 10.0 63.0 5.8 3.0 6.7 8.5 2.0 42.5 10.1 53.3 2.2 2.7 0.2 4.6 22.6 47.9 51.8 14.6Massachusetts 11,065 83.0 24.3 35.5 20.0 11.5 12.9 68.1 4.0 1.7 4.5 8.2 1.8 40.1 8.0 49.2 1.0 2.1 2.4 5.3 21.2 45.3 49.1 14.1Michigan 20,187 92.8 21.3 32.0 16.0 9.1 11.1 59.6 5.3 2.4 6.1 11.2 2.2 42.4 9.2 55.3 1.8 7.2 1.1 9.6 24.7 52.9 56.7 15.4Minnesota 8,982 87.6 20.4 34.8 24.8 9.0 8.8 64.0 4.3 1.9 4.9 5.8 2.0 46.2 9.0 53.5 0.6 2.4 2.2 5.0 23.0 54.0 57.6 15.0Mississippi 14,495 95.7 24.8 45.6 17.9 8.9 10.8 69.7 6.8 4.1 8.3 11.7 2.3 42.4 8.6 54.6 2.1 3.4 0.6 5.8 23.9 43.9 49.8 15.8Missouri 12,179 90.2 24.9 31.0 21.3 8.6 9.5 61.8 5.6 3.0 6.5 7.8 2.4 44.4 8.0 53.0 2.8 5.7 0.5 8.4 27.0 57.5 60.8 21.3Montana 3,275 93.5 21.7 23.3 17.0 8.4 12.2 57.5 7.0 3.6 8.4 7.0 2.2 40.0 8.5 49.0 2.1 6.9 1.8 10.3 18.8 51.6 54.2 18.2nebraska 3,982 97.4 21.9 36.3 15.8 8.8 8.4 60.3 4.6 1.9 5.2 6.5 2.5 52.1 8.4 59.2 2.7 5.6 1.1 9.0 29.1 61.3 64.6 15.7nevada 5,930 84.6 17.1 22.7 16.2 8.7 9.0 50.2 5.9 2.3 6.4 7.9 2.7 40.8 11.7 51.2 4.6 3.3 0.9 8.2 20.9 48.4 51.4 17.9new Hampshire 2,433 91.9 15.9 26.4 21.9 8.3 8.9 53.5 5.9 2.8 7.0 6.2 1.6 43.7 8.5 51.9 4.1 3.0 1.5 8.1 19.5 55.4 58.0 18.2new Jersey 12,549 92.6 26.8 34.9 26.9 13.4 14.5 72.5 4.3 2.4 5.1 9.4 2.6 42.7 9.5 52.8 1.3 1.6 1.5 4.1 25.6 48.9 53.4 11.6new Mexico 8,465 93.9 25.9 27.1 16.4 9.6 11.1 61.7 4.9 2.5 5.6 7.8 2.5 43.3 9.1 52.6 3.1 2.7 0.9 6.1 22.0 47.6 51.1 17.0new York NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NAnorth carolina 24,719 85.7 17.3 32.5 19.7 8.6 8.8 60.9 6.9 2.7 8.0 8.2 1.6 39.3 6.6 48.5 4.9 4.3 1.2 9.7 22.2 47.2 50.9 13.2north dakota 1,597 94.2 20.4 29.8 16.4 5.1 7.0 55.2 5.7 2.4 6.4 7.0 2.4 38.3 15.3 54.7 4.3 3.6 1.8 8.9 17.2 47.8 51.2 16.0Ohio 15,572 71.2 22.1 40.2 24.3 6.5 11.7 69.2 4.2 2.0 5.0 6.5 2.1 36.0 5.2 43.6 1.7 4.8 0.9 7.0 24.4 43.8 49.7 12.9Oklahoma 9,173 96.2 17.7 20.3 23.4 8.4 10.1 54.3 5.7 3.2 6.9 7.1 2.8 42.1 8.2 51.5 6.7 7.9 1.6 13.4 24.0 52.7 55.9 18.0Oregon 13,686 89.1 18.8 32.3 14.0 11.2 12.1 58.0 3.6 1.6 4.1 13.3 1.8 39.9 8.1 53.5 2.9 2.3 1.4 6.3 21.4 54.1 56.7 20.5pennsylvania 23,564 93.0 18.7 24.9 26.5 10.3 13.2 61.2 4.1 2.1 4.8 8.8 2.5 45.0 10.6 55.3 2.9 5.9 1.7 9.6 24.4 51.0 55.5 12.9Rhode island NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NAsouth carolina 9,615 95.5 21.3 33.9 34.5 10.1 11.8 71.8 9.7 5.2 11.4 9.4 2.0 41.8 9.7 53.1 1.1 2.5 0.6 4.0 23.3 46.7 50.8 11.0south dakota 1,938 98.1 19.1 23.3 18.2 7.0 13.3 55.2 7.7 3.0 8.7 7.3 2.3 41.9 8.7 49.3 2.7 7.6 1.0 10.6 20.1 51.3 53.9 23.2Tennessee 14,965 95.6 21.4 26.5 25.6 7.4 8.5 60.9 4.7 2.2 5.6 7.9 1.8 44.6 7.8 54.0 3.2 3.4 1.1 7.3 23.0 48.6 52.3 15.6Texas 51,409 94.2 21.4 30.8 20.2 11.4 10.7 60.8 5.2 2.5 5.9 9.3 2.8 44.6 9.4 54.5 3.7 8.6 0.6 12.5 26.5 49.1 53.6 15.5Utah 5,054 69.7 21.2 22.7 18.4 10.6 11.2 55.3 4.9 2.2 5.4 5.8 2.8 41.2 9.3 48.9 2.1 5.8 1.5 8.9 20.7 53.6 55.7 20.8Vermont 665 47.3 23.5 28.0 23.2 16.7 19.2 63.6 8.1 4.2 9.0 17.9 2.0 55.0 15.0 72.2 1.2 1.5 2.7 5.3 28.7 74.7 78.9 21.8Virginia 22,709 93.9 18.1 30.0 17.6 9.4 10.2 55.9 8.1 4.8 9.8 9.0 2.5 43.1 8.0 53.0 3.1 3.1 1.0 6.2 22.3 50.2 54.0 14.5Washington 16,930 69.1 16.9 32.5 19.0 11.9 12.8 60.5 5.9 3.8 7.8 13.8 4.4 40.8 11.7 55.9 2.8 4.6 5.8 11.0 18.1 45.6 49.1 16.6West Virginia 5,882 96.3 20.9 21.8 21.1 10.8 14.3 57.0 6.1 4.2 7.4 12.4 2.1 46.4 9.4 58.6 3.9 6.6 3.0 11.9 22.1 50.1 52.8 17.5Wisconsin 15,525 85.6 15.3 25.9 27.6 10.0 9.6 57.1 3.6 1.9 4.3 6.4 1.9 43.6 7.9 50.8 2.3 3.9 1.2 6.9 22.8 54.4 57.9 20.3Wyoming 1,906 97.0 18.5 27.7 10.1 8.0 9.4 49.9 5.0 2.4 5.9 4.8 2.5 42.2 5.5 49.3 1.5 11.6 1.2 13.5 17.8 48.6 51.9 15.9

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(n) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%)American samoa 32 100.0 28.1 50.0 6.3 9.4 6.3 68.8 18.8 6.3 25.0 12.5 0.0 34.4 6.3 43.8 0.0 6.3 0.0 6.3 18.8 28.1 31.3 15.6Federated states of Micronesia 7 100.0 57.1 42.9 14.3 28.6 28.6 85.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 14.3 0.0 42.9 57.1 85.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 14.3 28.6 28.6 0.0

Guam 220 99.5 27.7 15.0 9.5 7.3 3.6 45.9 28.2 10.9 31.8 13.2 1.8 36.4 7.3 52.3 0.9 1.8 0.0 2.7 25.5 54.1 58.6 15.0Marshall islands 49 100.0 59.2 67.3 2.0 4.1 10.2 89.8 6.1 2.0 8.2 12.2 0.0 20.4 8.2 34.7 0.0 0.0 2.0 2.0 22.4 24.5 42.9 14.3northern Mariana islands 35 94.6 31.4 28.6 8.6 5.7 11.4 62.9 17.1 5.7 17.1 5.7 2.9 40.0 8.6 51.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 22.9 34.3 40.0 17.1

palau 67 93.1 32.8 34.3 6.0 10.4 14.9 70.1 10.4 7.5 13.4 22.4 6.0 47.8 11.9 59.7 0.0 0.0 1.5 1.5 14.9 19.4 25.4 20.9puerto Rico NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NAVirgin islands 206 97.2 29.6 23.3 18.9 6.8 5.8 62.1 7.3 5.3 8.7 11.7 2.9 42.7 6.3 55.8 1.5 2.9 0.0 4.4 14.6 40.3 43.7 11.2

insular Areas subtotal 616 97.8 32.0 26.9 11.5 7.5 7.0 60.1 16.1 7.3 18.7 13.1 2.4 38.6 8.1 52.8 0.8 1.9 0.3 3.1 19.8 40.6 45.9 14.3

dAnTes 5,321 99.1 25.1 12.7 5.8 5.0 7.1 37.2 69.4 55.2 89.4 2.0 1.9 22.4 9.7 30.5 0.5 0.1 0.1 0.5 19.3 38.9 42.9 8.3Federal Bureau of prisons 7,960 83.3 11.3 17.5 27.0 14.6 14.2 46.2 0.9 0.5 1.0 7.2 2.4 41.4 15.0 48.2 4.7 8.5 1.3 12.8 36.1 70.2 75.7 15.7

international 1,765 63.9 64.9 19.0 6.5 17.3 5.5 82.4 1.0 0.7 1.4 7.5 2.2 18.2 4.6 25.3 4.4 0.5 0.8 5.3 9.3 27.4 29.7 21.7Michigan prisons 3,278 83.9 11.9 18.6 28.3 16.9 18.1 46.6 1.1 0.7 1.3 10.2 2.1 36.1 12.7 44.7 15.2 38.8 1.8 47.2 31.1 59.0 63.8 21.0VA Hospitals 3 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *inter-Regional contracts subtotal 18,327 84.9 20.6 16.5 19.1 12.5 12.0 47.1 20.8 16.4 26.8 6.2 2.2 32.7 12.1 40.2 5.3 10.7 1.0 14.7 27.8 55.0 59.6 15.1

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APPENDIX G2percentage of candidates Reporting Various Reasons for Taking the Ged® Test in insular Areas and inter-Regional contracts: 2009

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(n) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%)American samoa 32 100.0 28.1 50.0 6.3 9.4 6.3 68.8 18.8 6.3 25.0 12.5 0.0 34.4 6.3 43.8 0.0 6.3 0.0 6.3 18.8 28.1 31.3 15.6Federated states of Micronesia 7 100.0 57.1 42.9 14.3 28.6 28.6 85.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 14.3 0.0 42.9 57.1 85.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 14.3 28.6 28.6 0.0

Guam 220 99.5 27.7 15.0 9.5 7.3 3.6 45.9 28.2 10.9 31.8 13.2 1.8 36.4 7.3 52.3 0.9 1.8 0.0 2.7 25.5 54.1 58.6 15.0Marshall islands 49 100.0 59.2 67.3 2.0 4.1 10.2 89.8 6.1 2.0 8.2 12.2 0.0 20.4 8.2 34.7 0.0 0.0 2.0 2.0 22.4 24.5 42.9 14.3northern Mariana islands 35 94.6 31.4 28.6 8.6 5.7 11.4 62.9 17.1 5.7 17.1 5.7 2.9 40.0 8.6 51.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 22.9 34.3 40.0 17.1

palau 67 93.1 32.8 34.3 6.0 10.4 14.9 70.1 10.4 7.5 13.4 22.4 6.0 47.8 11.9 59.7 0.0 0.0 1.5 1.5 14.9 19.4 25.4 20.9puerto Rico NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NAVirgin islands 206 97.2 29.6 23.3 18.9 6.8 5.8 62.1 7.3 5.3 8.7 11.7 2.9 42.7 6.3 55.8 1.5 2.9 0.0 4.4 14.6 40.3 43.7 11.2

insular Areas subtotal 616 97.8 32.0 26.9 11.5 7.5 7.0 60.1 16.1 7.3 18.7 13.1 2.4 38.6 8.1 52.8 0.8 1.9 0.3 3.1 19.8 40.6 45.9 14.3

dAnTes 5,321 99.1 25.1 12.7 5.8 5.0 7.1 37.2 69.4 55.2 89.4 2.0 1.9 22.4 9.7 30.5 0.5 0.1 0.1 0.5 19.3 38.9 42.9 8.3Federal Bureau of prisons 7,960 83.3 11.3 17.5 27.0 14.6 14.2 46.2 0.9 0.5 1.0 7.2 2.4 41.4 15.0 48.2 4.7 8.5 1.3 12.8 36.1 70.2 75.7 15.7

international 1,765 63.9 64.9 19.0 6.5 17.3 5.5 82.4 1.0 0.7 1.4 7.5 2.2 18.2 4.6 25.3 4.4 0.5 0.8 5.3 9.3 27.4 29.7 21.7Michigan prisons 3,278 83.9 11.9 18.6 28.3 16.9 18.1 46.6 1.1 0.7 1.3 10.2 2.1 36.1 12.7 44.7 15.2 38.8 1.8 47.2 31.1 59.0 63.8 21.0VA Hospitals 3 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *inter-Regional contracts subtotal 18,327 84.9 20.6 16.5 19.1 12.5 12.0 47.1 20.8 16.4 26.8 6.2 2.2 32.7 12.1 40.2 5.3 10.7 1.0 14.7 27.8 55.0 59.6 15.1

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Source: 2009 GED Testing Service® data.

NA = Not available.

* = Not reported due to small numbers.1. Candidates could report more than one reason for testing.2. Canadian data on reasons for testing were not available because of legal restrictions on collecting such data.

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insular Areas subtotal 4,771 896 4 3,871

Alberta 2,175 2,170 5 0British columbia 1,435 1,427 8 0Manitoba 242 241 1 0new Brunswick 1,549 1,238 311 0newfoundland and Labrador 209 209 0 0northwest Territories 26 26 0 0nova scotia 1,078 1,075 3 0nunavut 59 59 0 0Ontario 5,325 5,308 17 0prince edward island 398 398 0 0Quebec 233 37 196 0saskatchewan 1,378 1,377 1 0Yukon Territory 30 30 0 0

canada subtotal 14,137 13,595 542 0

dAnTes 5,371 5,364 0 7Federal Bureau of prisons 9,556 8,870 0 686international 2,762 2,762 0 0Michigan prisons 3,905 3,882 0 23VA Hospitals 3 * * *inter-Regional contracts subtotal 21,597 20,881 0 716

program Total 788,314 756,877 944 30,493

Source: 2009 GED Testing Service® data.

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insular Areas subtotal 4,771 630 0 0 0

Alberta 2,175 2,164 11 0 0British columbia 1,435 1,435 0 0 0Manitoba 242 242 0 0 0new Brunswick 1,549 1,527 2 0 20newfoundland and Labrador 209 209 0 0 0northwest Territories 26 26 0 0 0nova scotia 1,078 1,062 5 0 11nunavut 59 59 0 0 0Ontario 5,325 5,216 4 0 105prince edward island 398 397 1 0 0Quebec 233 231 0 0 2saskatchewan 1,378 1,329 49 0 0Yukon Territory 30 30 0 0 0

canada subtotal 14,137 13,927 72 0 138

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program Total 788,314 782,499 634 21 1,019

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Alabama 12,528 450 450 85 82.0 12,666 480 478 84 83.2 12,543 490 502 101 87.4Alaska 1,815 470 483 74 92.0 1,907 510 516 81 94.2 1,812 520 548 106 96.0Arizona 14,698 480 491 75 91.6 15,171 500 507 85 91.0 15,076 500 530 106 92.4Arkansas 7,881 500 501 74 94.4 7,875 510 515 78 95.6 7,852 520 544 103 96.4california 43,793 490 496 80 90.4 46,045 500 507 83 91.2 46,180 500 527 105 92.4colorado 11,603 490 499 76 94.6 12,562 510 514 82 94.0 12,575 510 541 104 95.6connecticut 4,407 490 497 81 88.4 4,524 490 499 86 87.6 4,485 490 513 104 89.4delaware 875 490 504 70 97.4 874 540 543 77 98.2 873 550 567 99 99.4district of columbia 826 460 476 75 85.8 815 480 481 76 87.4 797 480 501 91 91.0Florida 41,283 470 482 69 90.6 42,055 500 505 83 90.4 41,995 500 529 105 92.4Georgia 24,346 500 500 81 89.4 25,181 490 496 82 89.0 25,148 490 515 103 90.6Hawaii 1,752 480 484 84 89.2 1,726 500 509 82 92.2 1,742 500 528 107 92.0idaho 4,077 500 503 76 94.8 4,284 520 527 80 95.8 4,308 540 556 108 97.2illinois 23,013 440 464 69 85.8 23,843 490 495 83 88.0 23,890 490 514 102 89.8indiana 13,325 480 490 74 91.0 13,538 530 537 83 96.0 13,503 510 535 106 93.8iowa 4,454 500 505 69 97.2 4,504 530 534 74 98.6 4,577 540 560 102 98.4Kansas 3,318 510 522 74 96.6 3,291 540 549 77 98.6 3,289 560 581 106 98.8Kentucky 9,966 470 484 68 93.2 9,994 500 510 75 94.8 9,958 500 528 100 95.0Louisiana 10,415 470 481 73 89.8 10,633 480 492 78 89.2 10,577 490 514 100 91.2Maine 2,879 470 480 74 92.4 3,044 520 526 77 96.2 3,047 540 553 105 97.2Maryland 7,713 460 457 88 81.6 7,266 500 499 86 87.6 7,232 490 512 106 87.8Massachusetts 10,512 460 470 86 86.2 10,396 490 499 84 89.8 10,338 490 520 105 91.0Michigan 14,940 460 468 85 86.0 15,761 500 509 84 90.8 16,009 500 530 106 92.4Minnesota 6,963 460 478 82 91.0 7,374 530 530 82 96.0 7,374 540 549 106 96.2Mississippi 11,689 450 449 82 81.6 11,879 470 472 80 81.8 11,799 470 495 99 85.4Missouri 12,669 460 473 83 88.6 12,588 510 517 84 92.2 12,549 510 535 107 93.0Montana 2,672 470 474 87 88.8 2,723 510 521 84 94.0 2,774 540 548 108 95.2nebraska 2,605 470 479 74 92.8 2,796 510 521 79 95.8 2,862 540 549 106 95.8nevada 6,371 460 462 84 85.8 6,227 500 506 83 90.6 6,224 500 522 104 91.6new Hampshire 2,051 480 496 82 92.8 2,100 530 529 85 95.2 2,095 540 550 108 95.6new Jersey 10,852 470 486 76 88.8 11,142 480 492 84 87.2 11,107 490 511 103 89.2new Mexico 6,928 460 471 83 87.2 7,068 500 499 80 90.2 7,023 500 523 102 92.4new York 44,476 450 452 101 77.6 43,111 480 485 82 85.2 42,998 480 502 101 87.0north carolina 17,936 480 485 74 93.0 20,157 510 513 79 94.4 20,557 510 541 104 95.8north dakota 1,115 460 466 73 91.2 1,201 500 513 82 94.0 1,178 510 538 104 96.4Ohio 19,830 460 468 61 91.0 20,017 510 520 78 95.0 19,971 510 538 102 95.6Oklahoma 8,526 460 460 84 85.8 8,441 500 506 83 91.0 8,377 500 531 106 92.6Oregon 10,630 490 499 78 94.8 11,372 520 528 84 96.0 11,364 540 558 109 97.0pennsylvania 20,054 460 459 85 84.6 19,888 500 502 83 90.2 19,916 500 523 103 92.0Rhode island 1,832 440 456 60 88.2 2,135 500 509 77 93.0 2,201 500 530 103 94.2south carolina 9,149 460 463 82 85.2 8,993 500 503 80 91.0 9,036 490 513 102 89.8south dakota 1,358 470 480 76 91.4 1,494 520 526 77 96.8 1,472 540 551 101 97.2Tennessee 13,639 460 469 75 89.6 13,645 500 507 77 93.4 13,585 500 526 101 94.2Texas 42,198 490 490 75 90.0 43,243 490 494 81 88.8 42,947 490 520 103 91.2Utah 6,456 500 506 78 94.0 6,559 520 523 85 93.8 6,558 520 547 109 95.2Vermont 801 460 477 71 92.2 903 510 520 84 93.6 931 540 553 106 95.8Virginia 18,199 470 482 72 90.4 19,179 490 499 80 90.8 18,997 490 515 100 92.2Washington 15,159 490 502 85 92.0 15,980 520 523 86 94.0 16,357 540 552 111 95.2West Virginia 5,470 450 462 74 88.4 5,424 500 503 76 93.0 5,424 500 524 99 94.4Wisconsin 10,011 460 476 75 91.2 10,814 510 520 83 94.6 11,212 510 541 106 95.2Wyoming 1,582 510 509 79 95.8 1,639 530 536 77 98.0 1,611 550 569 105 98.8

U.s. subtotal 581,640 470 479 81 88.6 596,047 500 505 83 90.8 596,305 500 526 105 92.2

American samoa 28 420 397 108 53.6 26 375 383 89 27.0 26 375 389 71 27.0Federated states of Micronesia 6 420 388 157 66.6 5 430 442 68 60.0 6 465 453 72 83.4

Guam 185 460 476 89 86.4 180 480 492 71 93.4 182 470 501 96 91.2Marshall islands 38 400 404 70 47.4 44 375 393 68 41.0 45 390 405 68 37.8northern Mariana islands 15 530 496 144 86.6 11 470 485 73 91.0 22 470 489 94 91.0

palau 13 490 471 65 77.0 49 430 429 60 67.4 38 415 424 71 55.2puerto Rico NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NAVirgin islands 166 450 442 96 76.0 156 450 466 74 80.2 154 465 484 100 79.8insular Areas subtotal 451 450 452 98 76.8 471 450 461 80 77.2 473 460 473 98 75.8

APPENDIX J1standard score statistics for All Ged® Test candidates in Language Arts, Writing; social studies; and Language Arts, Reading Tests: 2009

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Alberta 1,975 540 542 83 97.4 1,973 550 545 83 95.4 1,982 600 606 109 98.2British columbia 1,275 570 581 98 98.0 1,285 560 552 90 94.6 1,299 600 608 114 97.4Manitoba 221 510 522 90 94.2 213 560 553 89 93.4 214 600 612 111 98.2new Brunswick 1,323 480 482 89 89.0 1,236 480 490 79 88.2 1,195 540 560 102 96.6newfoundland and Labrador 178 520 524 81 95.6 176 500 501 79 89.2 165 560 572 114 96.4

northwest Territories 22 560 557 98 91.0 25 560 539 104 92.0 24 610 637 108 100.0

nova scotia 914 490 496 79 92.2 884 500 508 88 88.6 888 540 555 108 96.8nunavut 50 400 386 142 46.0 42 440 443 110 64.2 40 440 476 100 77.6Ontario 4,792 540 543 84 97.6 4,755 540 541 85 95.0 4,792 585 590 109 97.6prince edward island 326 500 512 73 95.4 333 510 515 81 93.4 322 560 570 104 98.2

Quebec 207 520 530 82 98.0 227 490 482 81 82.4 227 610 603 90 97.8saskatchewan 1,085 510 517 80 94.4 1,103 500 504 89 87.2 1,110 540 556 108 95.0Yukon Territory 27 550 525 129 92.6 27 560 559 83 96.2 27 650 634 112 96.2

canada subtotal 12,395 530 532 90 95.6 12,279 530 530 88 92.6 12,285 570 586 110 97.2

dAnTes 5,212 500 508 69 98.2 5,136 550 552 72 98.8 5,137 560 574 100 98.8Federal Bureau of prisons 7,866 450 451 68 85.2 7,653 490 496 71 93.6 7,488 490 513 93 93.6

international 2,117 460 471 100 81.8 2,030 470 478 85 81.2 2,199 450 468 97 76.8Michigan prisons 2,616 430 434 71 76.8 2,486 470 480 72 88.6 2,458 470 500 92 92.0VA Hospitals 2 * * * * 2 * * * * 2 * * * *inter-Regional contracts subtotal 17,813 460 468 78 87.4 17,307 500 508 79 93.0 17,284 500 524 102 92.8

program Total 612,299 470 480 81 88.8 626,104 500 506 83 91.0 626,347 500 527 105 92.4

Source: 2009 GED Testing Service® data.

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U.s. subtotal 594,510 520 524 86 93.6 606,171 470 468 77 81.4

American samoa 27 390 396 71 37.0 26 375 369 92 30.8Federated states of Micronesia 5 450 464 52 100.0 5 410 414 25 80.0

Guam 187 520 514 68 94.6 200 450 455 67 77.0Marshall islands 46 385 408 86 43.4 44 350 354 82 22.8northern Mariana islands 11 520 539 101 100.0 18 485 487 78 88.8

palau 19 470 478 54 89.4 18 435 448 80 77.8puerto Rico NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NAVirgin islands 155 490 491 79 88.4 177 430 437 72 68.4insular Areas subtotal 450 490 487 84 83.8 488 430 435 79 67.0

APPENDIX J2standard score statistics for All Ged® Test candidates in science and Mathematics Tests: 2009

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(%)Alberta 1,955 560 578 88 97.4 2,062 510 524 99 90.6British columbia 1,282 560 578 94 96.8 1,344 510 518 101 87.2Manitoba 212 560 574 95 96.6 221 510 524 115 85.0new Brunswick 1,187 520 524 84 93.2 1,310 480 480 88 82.0newfoundland and Labrador 165 550 555 91 94.6 180 480 499 98 86.2

northwest Territories 25 580 587 80 100.0 20 520 534 133 85.0nova scotia 882 530 540 88 94.8 967 470 479 94 79.4nunavut 44 450 469 114 70.4 50 430 427 83 60.0Ontario 4,756 550 565 88 96.4 5,011 510 519 96 90.0prince edward island 325 540 544 82 95.6 354 480 490 85 87.2Quebec 225 510 513 74 93.8 227 490 483 78 85.0saskatchewan 1,089 530 533 89 92.2 1,154 480 484 97 80.2Yukon Territory 26 600 588 94 96.2 28 520 519 95 89.2

canada subtotal 12,173 550 558 90 95.6 12,928 500 508 98 87.0

dAnTes 5,140 570 583 77 99.4 5,214 530 533 72 98.4Federal Bureau of prisons 7,719 490 500 71 93.8 8,199 440 449 62 78.8

international 2,033 500 506 92 87.8 2,156 480 487 96 80.0Michigan prisons 2,509 480 490 74 90.4 2,848 430 431 66 66.8VA Hospitals 1 * * * * 2 * * * *inter-Regional contracts subtotal 17,402 520 524 85 94.2 18,419 470 474 81 82.6

program Total 624,535 520 525 86 93.6 638,006 470 469 78 81.6

Source: 2009 GED Testing Service® data.

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Alabama 14,783 15,269 3.3 99.2 99.6 0.4 60.8 57.3 -3.5Alaska 2,748 2,725 -0.8 67.6 63.6 -4.0 89.3 87.0 -2.3Arizona 20,462 18,912 -7.6 89.3 90.0 0.7 73.6 70.8 -2.8Arkansas 8,460 8,646 2.2 99.2 99.4 0.2 84.8 82.8 -2.0california 58,750 58,136 -1.0 83.6 83.1 -0.5 73.3 69.4 -3.9colorado 15,629 16,643 6.5 74.7 73.4 -1.3 83.3 81.8 -1.5connecticut 5,711 5,548 -2.9 88.0 87.1 -0.9 66.4 62.7 -3.7delaware 793 902 13.7 99.0 99.6 0.6 95.8 91.4 -4.4district of columbia 1,007 1,071 6.4 95.5 84.2 -11.3 64.4 53.5 -10.9Florida 51,063 49,546 -3.0 95.2 95.1 -0.1 73.4 69.4 -4.0Georgia 32,578 33,467 2.7 86.2 84.3 -1.9 70.3 66.0 -4.3Hawaii 2,044 1,995 -2.4 93.8 94.6 0.8 78.6 75.2 -3.4idaho 5,928 5,809 -2.0 74.5 73.0 -1.5 86.9 85.0 -1.9illinois 28,013 30,162 7.7 90.5 89.7 -0.8 63.1 59.2 -3.9indiana 14,211 14,953 5.2 99.0 99.4 0.4 83.8 73.4 -10.4iowa 5,999 6,351 5.9 65.2 64.0 -1.2 99.0 98.1 -0.9Kansas 3,449 3,413 -1.0 98.5 98.9 0.4 94.2 91.9 -2.3Kentucky 12,480 11,201 -10.2 98.6 98.7 0.1 80.1 78.4 -1.7Louisiana 10,213 11,818 15.7 96.1 96.9 0.8 72.8 69.5 -3.3Maine 4,045 4,269 5.5 68.7 68.8 0.1 87.5 86.5 -1.0Maryland 8,976 8,942 -0.4 95.3 94.0 -1.3 65.4 60.1 -5.3Massachusetts 13,508 13,328 -1.3 89.4 89.2 -0.2 68.0 64.7 -3.3Michigan 20,896 21,754 4.1 74.0 72.9 -1.1 71.3 69.9 -1.4Minnesota 10,379 10,256 -1.2 72.5 70.9 -1.6 83.6 81.9 -1.7Mississippi 13,977 15,140 8.3 93.1 91.8 -1.3 60.7 55.8 -4.9Missouri 12,675 13,508 6.6 99.4 99.5 0.1 79.2 74.4 -4.8Montana 3,385 3,503 3.5 82.3 81.4 -0.9 79.6 75.5 -4.1nebraska 3,880 4,088 5.4 66.7 66.3 -0.4 85.8 81.4 -4.4nevada 6,868 7,009 2.1 97.7 98.3 0.6 71.2 68.7 -2.5new Hampshire 2,481 2,647 6.7 76.9 80.4 3.5 82.5 82.0 -0.5new Jersey 14,413 13,550 -6.0 97.1 97.1 0.0 65.6 62.4 -3.2new Mexico 8,291 9,017 8.8 82.3 84.9 2.6 70.7 68.0 -2.7new York 57,175 53,063 -7.2 97.6 97.5 -0.1 59.7 53.8 -5.9north carolina 26,419 28,859 9.2 61.1 59.0 -2.1 86.5 85.2 -1.3north dakota 1,723 1,695 -1.6 68.9 68.7 -0.2 83.6 83.1 -0.5Ohio 23,740 21,876 -7.9 99.0 99.2 0.2 81.1 76.0 -5.1Oklahoma 9,050 9,540 5.4 98.5 98.6 0.1 73.3 70.1 -3.2Oregon 14,259 15,366 7.8 72.3 72.1 -0.2 85.0 83.7 -1.3pennsylvania 23,645 25,344 7.2 88.2 88.5 0.3 69.6 64.8 -4.8Rhode island 3,185 2,689 -15.6 64.2 65.8 1.6 70.9 76.5 5.6south carolina 9,207 10,063 9.3 98.8 98.8 0.0 73.1 69.0 -4.1south dakota 2,190 1,975 -9.8 70.4 71.2 0.8 82.1 81.5 -0.6Tennessee 15,923 15,647 -1.7 98.9 98.3 -0.6 77.6 71.4 -6.2Texas 53,133 54,547 2.7 86.9 88.7 1.8 69.2 67.0 -2.2Utah 6,715 7,253 8.0 95.8 96.6 0.8 83.0 81.0 -2.0Vermont 1,425 1,406 -1.3 63.9 56.5 -7.4 84.1 81.3 -2.8Virginia 24,157 24,186 0.1 91.2 87.9 -3.3 72.0 68.0 -4.0Washington 22,976 24,510 6.7 68.3 61.2 -7.1 83.0 79.8 -3.2West Virginia 5,501 6,111 11.1 98.1 98.8 0.7 73.0 74.4 1.4Wisconsin 16,838 18,136 7.7 56.4 55.3 -1.1 81.8 79.0 -2.8Wyoming 1,877 1,965 4.7 82.1 81.5 -0.6 91.1 90.9 -0.2

U.s. subtotal 737,233 747,809 1.4 87.1 86.3 -0.8 73.1 69.4 -3.7

American samoa 32 32 0.0 100.0 93.8 -6.2 34.4 13.3 -21.1Federated states of Micronesia 53 7 -86.8 77.4 57.1 -20.3 7.3 50.0 42.7Guam 275 221 -19.6 99.6 98.6 -1.0 70.8 64.2 -6.6Marshall islands 36 49 36.1 80.6 91.8 11.2 13.8 13.3 -0.5northern Mariana islands 34 37 8.8 52.9 51.4 -1.5 38.9 52.6 13.7palau 62 72 16.1 61.3 38.9 -22.4 31.6 46.4 14.8puerto Rico 4,620 4,141 -10.4 100.0 100.0 0.0 31.4 35.1 3.7Virgin islands 197 212 7.6 97.0 98.6 1.6 56.5 43.1 -13.4

insular Areas subtotal 5,309 4,771 -10.1 98.8 98.4 -0.4 34.1 36.6 2.5

APPENDIX KGed® Test candidate participation, by number Tested, percentage Who completed the Ged Test, and percentage Who passed: changes from 2008 to 2009

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canada subtotal 12,713 14,137 11.2 97.0 97.2 0.2 63.2 66.3 3.1

dAnTes 5,297 5,371 1.4 99.3 99.3 0.0 94.0 95.5 1.5Federal Bureau of prisons 9,438 9,556 1.3 95.7 92.9 -2.8 69.8 64.9 -4.9international 2,349 2,762 17.6 84.0 79.7 -4.3 61.1 59.9 -1.2Michigan prisons 4,385 3,905 -10.9 87.7 86.8 -0.9 59.5 52.6 -6.9VA Hospitals 4 3 -25.0 25.0 66.7 41.7 0.0 0.0 0.0

inter-Regional contracts subtotal 21,473 21,597 0.6 93.6 91.7 -1.9 73.3 70.5 -2.8

program Total 776,728 788,314 1.5 87.5 86.7 -0.8 72.6 69.2 -3.4

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Note: Due to rounding procedures, the data listed under Percentage Point Change 2008–09 may not equal the difference between the 2008 and 2009 completion and pass rates.

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(n) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (years)Alabama 8,713 100.0 35.7 34.2 12.1 8.1 4.5 3.6 1.5 0.2 23.8 8.1Alaska 1,507 100.0 38.0 39.4 12.2 4.0 3.0 2.6 0.7 0.1 22.4 6.7Arizona 12,045 100.0 30.2 34.5 13.8 8.1 5.7 5.6 1.8 0.4 24.9 8.8Arkansas 7,002 98.4 43.4 27.5 10.5 7.0 4.4 4.8 2.1 0.3 23.7 8.8california 33,534 100.0 24.6 34.3 13.9 9.4 7.0 8.1 2.3 0.3 26.3 9.3colorado 9,993 100.0 34.5 33.5 13.4 7.1 4.6 4.9 1.8 0.2 24.3 8.4connecticut 3,025 99.9 22.4 44.3 14.7 7.4 4.8 4.7 1.5 0.1 24.6 8.0delaware 821 100.0 22.2 41.9 16.6 9.5 3.5 4.6 1.3 0.4 24.9 8.0district of columbia 482 99.8 24.9 44.6 13.7 7.5 3.9 4.4 0.6 0.4 24.1 7.5Florida 32,681 100.0 41.5 33.5 10.2 5.4 3.8 3.9 1.5 0.2 23.1 7.9Georgia 18,604 99.9 28.8 38.5 13.2 8.0 4.9 4.9 1.5 0.2 24.5 8.4Hawaii 1,419 100.0 58.1 23.9 8.0 4.0 2.2 2.9 0.9 0.0 21.3 6.9idaho 3,606 100.0 39.6 31.8 11.2 6.2 4.4 4.8 1.9 0.2 23.8 8.5illinois 16,024 100.0 29.2 37.9 13.2 8.2 4.9 4.8 1.7 0.2 24.5 8.4indiana 10,901 100.0 29.4 37.1 13.6 7.5 4.6 5.2 2.3 0.4 24.8 8.8iowa 3,990 100.0 30.0 38.0 13.8 7.7 4.1 4.1 2.1 0.2 24.4 8.3Kansas 3,102 100.0 39.2 33.0 12.4 7.4 3.5 3.4 0.8 0.2 23.2 7.5Kentucky 8,666 100.0 30.5 34.1 14.4 8.8 4.9 4.9 2.1 0.3 24.8 8.8Louisiana 7,939 99.7 43.2 31.8 10.9 6.5 3.7 2.9 0.9 0.1 22.6 7.4Maine 2,539 100.0 31.7 40.3 11.6 5.1 3.5 5.0 2.6 0.2 24.2 8.7Maryland 5,053 100.0 32.5 39.3 11.9 6.3 4.3 4.0 1.4 0.3 23.7 8.1Massachusetts 7,678 99.9 34.0 40.0 10.7 5.4 3.4 4.6 1.6 0.3 23.6 8.3Michigan 11,095 100.0 25.3 42.0 12.9 8.4 4.6 4.9 1.9 0.1 24.7 8.2Minnesota 5,960 100.0 18.0 46.6 16.4 8.2 4.1 4.8 1.8 0.2 25.0 8.1Mississippi 7,759 100.0 39.4 32.6 12.2 7.3 3.9 3.1 1.4 0.2 23.3 7.8Missouri 10,001 100.0 38.4 29.4 13.2 7.5 4.5 5.0 1.8 0.2 24.2 8.6Montana 2,155 100.0 45.7 33.2 10.0 4.3 2.6 3.0 1.1 0.2 22.2 7.3nebraska 2,206 100.0 29.8 37.7 14.3 7.6 4.4 4.5 1.4 0.2 24.3 8.0nevada 4,734 100.0 30.2 35.6 13.7 7.7 4.6 5.7 2.2 0.2 24.8 8.8new Hampshire 1,740 99.7 31.6 39.5 12.0 5.7 3.6 5.9 1.7 0.1 24.1 8.3new Jersey 8,211 100.0 32.0 31.2 13.9 9.1 5.5 6.1 1.9 0.3 25.1 9.0new Mexico 5,206 100.0 41.2 32.8 11.5 6.5 3.5 3.4 1.0 0.2 23.0 7.6new York 27,811 100.0 26.9 42.1 12.7 7.3 4.2 4.9 1.7 0.2 24.4 8.5north carolina 14,494 100.0 26.5 34.8 14.4 9.2 5.6 6.3 2.6 0.5 25.7 9.4north dakota 967 100.0 39.3 40.1 9.7 5.6 1.8 2.4 0.9 0.2 22.2 6.9Ohio 16,477 99.9 15.8 44.8 16.6 9.5 5.1 5.4 2.4 0.3 25.9 8.7Oklahoma 6,592 100.0 31.3 34.9 14.7 7.9 4.6 4.9 1.5 0.2 24.4 8.3Oregon 9,274 100.0 38.5 28.9 10.9 7.8 5.3 6.4 2.0 0.2 24.5 9.1pennsylvania 14,536 100.0 27.1 40.5 13.2 7.3 4.9 4.9 2.0 0.2 24.7 8.5Rhode island 1,352 99.9 38.3 38.4 10.8 3.5 3.7 4.3 0.7 0.3 22.9 7.8south carolina 6,858 99.9 31.8 38.6 11.6 7.3 4.1 4.1 2.1 0.5 24.2 8.7south dakota 1,146 100.0 36.0 36.0 13.4 5.1 3.4 3.4 2.6 0.1 23.6 8.4Tennessee 10,985 100.0 23.8 35.8 15.5 9.7 6.3 6.3 2.4 0.3 26.0 9.0Texas 32,380 99.9 27.7 35.1 14.8 9.0 5.5 5.6 1.9 0.3 25.2 8.7Utah 5,675 100.0 37.6 38.7 10.4 5.9 2.9 3.5 1.0 0.0 22.9 7.1Vermont 646 100.0 48.9 33.9 7.7 3.4 1.9 2.5 1.5 0.2 21.8 7.1Virginia 14,454 100.0 36.4 31.9 12.3 7.1 4.5 5.3 2.1 0.4 24.4 9.0Washington 11,977 100.0 30.3 38.5 13.1 7.4 4.5 4.6 1.4 0.2 24.1 8.1West Virginia 4,492 100.0 37.2 34.4 11.6 6.9 4.2 4.4 1.0 0.3 23.5 8.0Wisconsin 7,925 100.0 26.4 34.6 15.8 9.0 5.8 5.9 2.3 0.3 25.6 8.9Wyoming 1,453 99.9 37.5 37.2 11.2 6.1 2.9 4.1 1.0 0.1 23.1 7.5

U.s. subtotal 447,885 99.9 31.0 36.2 13.1 7.7 4.8 5.1 1.8 0.3 24.5 8.6

American samoa 4 * * * * * * * * * * *Federated states of Micronesia 2 * * * * * * * * * * *

Guam 140 100.0 25.0 49.3 13.6 6.4 2.9 2.9 0.0 0.0 22.8 5.9Marshall islands 6 100.0 16.7 33.3 33.3 0.0 0.0 16.7 0.0 0.0 26.8 9.7northern Mariana islands 10 100.0 20.0 50.0 10.0 10.0 10.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 23.9 6.1palau 13 100.0 0.0 69.2 0.0 15.4 7.7 7.7 0.0 0.0 25.3 7.9puerto Rico NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NAVirgin islands 90 100.0 37.8 40.0 7.8 3.3 4.4 6.7 0.0 0.0 23.1 7.8

insular Areas subtotal 265 100.0 27.5 46.8 10.9 6.4 3.8 4.5 0.0 0.0 23.2 6.8

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(n) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (years)Alberta 1,562 100.0 2.2 32.8 21.1 15.0 9.4 13.6 5.4 0.4 30.9 9.8British columbia 939 92.0 5.6 26.0 15.7 15.7 12.9 19.0 4.7 0.5 32.3 10.3Manitoba 170 100.0 1.8 30.6 18.8 13.5 12.9 15.9 6.5 0.0 31.9 9.9new Brunswick 771 100.0 2.7 41.1 15.8 10.4 9.2 14.0 6.2 0.5 30.4 10.7newfoundland and Labrador 122 100.0 0.0 53.3 9.8 8.2 13.9 13.9 0.8 0.0 28.7 9.2northwest Territories 11 100.0 0.0 45.5 27.3 9.1 0.0 18.2 0.0 0.0 28.2 9.4nova scotia 529 100.0 0.0 41.2 16.6 9.3 7.4 17.2 7.9 0.4 31.3 11.2nunavut 9 100.0 11.1 33.3 33.3 0.0 11.1 11.1 0.0 0.0 26.1 8.0Ontario 3,818 100.0 2.5 39.6 13.9 9.4 8.9 17.2 7.9 0.6 31.6 11.3prince edward island 231 100.0 5.2 29.4 11.7 7.4 7.4 22.1 14.3 2.6 35.0 13.2Quebec 125 100.0 12.0 48.8 19.2 5.6 6.4 4.8 3.2 0.0 26.0 8.5saskatchewan 715 100.0 9.0 32.6 18.7 11.6 5.9 15.4 5.6 1.3 30.4 11.2Yukon Territory 19 100.0 5.3 42.1 21.1 15.8 5.3 5.3 5.3 0.0 28.8 9.0

canada subtotal 9,021 99.1 3.3 36.6 16.2 11.3 9.1 16.2 6.7 0.6 31.3 10.9

dAnTes 5,095 100.0 29.5 56.8 9.0 3.2 1.2 0.3 0.0 0.0 21.3 4.0Federal Bureau of prisons 5,757 99.9 0.1 15.9 26.9 22.9 14.8 14.2 4.0 1.1 33.2 8.8international 1,316 99.8 66.3 26.8 3.4 1.4 0.7 0.9 0.4 0.0 19.6 4.5Michigan prisons 1,783 99.9 7.5 37.2 20.2 11.6 8.4 10.7 3.4 1.0 29.1 9.9VA Hospitals – – – – – – – – – – – –inter-Regional contracts subtotal 13,951 99.9 18.0 34.6 17.3 12.2 7.7 7.4 2.1 0.6 27.0 9.2

program Total 471,122 99.9 30.1 36.1 13.3 7.9 5.0 5.4 1.9 0.3 24.7 8.7

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NA = Not available.

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Alabama 8,713 100.0 55.1 44.9Alaska 1,507 100.0 62.4 37.6Arizona 12,045 100.0 60.5 39.5Arkansas 7,004 98.4 58.7 41.3california 33,306 99.3 63.6 36.4colorado 9,993 100.0 60.1 39.9connecticut 3,028 100.0 66.2 33.8delaware 821 100.0 64.4 35.6district of columbia 475 98.3 61.1 38.9Florida 32,675 100.0 59.8 40.2Georgia 18,581 99.8 58.5 41.5Hawaii 1,410 99.4 58.7 41.3idaho 3,605 100.0 59.0 41.0illinois 15,777 98.5 59.3 40.7indiana 10,788 98.9 60.5 39.5iowa 3,990 100.0 57.6 42.4Kansas 3,102 100.0 57.1 42.9Kentucky 8,666 100.0 59.9 40.1Louisiana 7,954 99.9 59.8 40.2Maine 2,474 97.4 59.1 40.9Maryland 5,053 100.0 63.5 36.5Massachusetts 7,635 99.3 58.1 41.9Michigan 11,039 99.5 58.1 41.9Minnesota 5,919 99.3 63.3 36.7Mississippi 7,746 99.8 56.6 43.4Missouri 10,001 100.0 59.9 40.1Montana 2,146 99.6 56.0 44.0nebraska 2,201 99.8 59.1 40.9nevada 4,728 99.9 58.7 41.3new Hampshire 1,720 98.6 61.0 39.0new Jersey 8,212 100.0 57.7 42.3new Mexico 5,188 99.7 54.8 45.2new York 27,667 99.5 58.5 41.5north carolina 14,494 100.0 59.2 40.8north dakota 964 99.7 58.4 41.6Ohio 16,469 99.9 57.4 42.6Oklahoma 6,569 99.7 56.2 43.8Oregon 9,273 100.0 58.7 41.3pennsylvania 14,521 99.9 61.2 38.8Rhode island 1,352 99.9 61.0 39.0south carolina 6,808 99.2 57.9 42.1south dakota 1,144 99.8 62.6 37.4Tennessee 10,984 100.0 56.6 43.4Texas 32,324 99.7 58.7 41.3Utah 5,675 100.0 59.1 40.9Vermont 644 99.7 63.4 36.6Virginia 14,453 100.0 62.1 37.9Washington 11,795 98.5 59.0 41.0West Virginia 4,300 95.7 57.3 42.7Wisconsin 7,917 99.9 63.8 36.2Wyoming 1,450 99.7 58.8 41.2

U.s. subtotal 446,305 99.6 59.5 40.5

American samoa 4 * * *Federated states of Micronesia 2 * * *Guam 140 100.0 54.3 45.7Marshall islands 6 100.0 50.0 50.0northern Mariana islands 10 100.0 50.0 50.0palau 12 92.3 50.0 50.0puerto Rico 1,452 100.0 55.4 44.6Virgin islands 90 100.0 55.6 44.4

insular Areas subtotal 1,716 99.9 55.3 44.7

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Alberta 1,562 100.0 70.0 30.0British columbia 937 91.8 64.7 35.3Manitoba 170 100.0 68.2 31.8new Brunswick 767 99.5 61.8 38.2newfoundland and Labrador 122 100.0 52.5 47.5northwest Territories 11 100.0 54.5 45.5nova scotia 398 75.2 64.3 35.7nunavut 9 100.0 44.4 55.6Ontario 3,818 100.0 66.0 34.0prince edward island 231 100.0 54.1 45.9Quebec 125 100.0 40.8 59.2saskatchewan 715 100.0 58.5 41.5Yukon Territory 18 94.7 50.0 50.0

canada subtotal 8,883 97.6 64.7 35.3

dAnTes 5,095 100.0 88.2 11.8Federal Bureau of prisons 5,705 99.0 87.7 12.3international 859 65.2 53.4 46.6Michigan prisons 1,760 98.7 94.4 5.6VA Hospitals – – – –

inter-Regional contracts subtotal 13,419 96.1 86.6 13.4

program Total 470,323 99.5 60.3 39.7

Source: 2009 GED Testing Service® data.

– = Not applicable or not possible to calculate.

* = Not reported due to small numbers.

Notes: Caution should be exercised in interpreting results when response rate is below 85 percent.

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Alabama 8,441 96.9 2.1 1.1 0.5 25.0 0.1 71.1Alaska 1,443 95.8 4.9 33.3 2.2 3.5 2.1 54.0Arizona 11,373 94.4 33.3 5.9 0.9 6.5 0.9 52.4Arkansas 6,946 97.6 6.3 1.5 0.7 15.5 0.3 75.7california 30,419 90.7 47.1 1.5 4.9 10.4 2.0 33.9colorado 9,977 99.8 31.0 2.5 1.4 9.0 0.3 55.8connecticut 3,028 100.0 22.6 0.9 1.2 20.3 0.3 54.6delaware 802 97.7 7.7 0.5 1.5 31.4 0.2 58.6district of columbia 473 97.9 17.1 0.4 0.8 74.6 0.0 7.0Florida 32,663 99.9 16.5 0.8 1.5 18.0 0.4 62.7Georgia 16,870 90.6 5.7 0.6 1.3 33.2 0.2 59.0Hawaii 1,368 96.4 8.2 1.5 19.8 2.9 36.5 31.2idaho 3,215 89.2 12.6 3.5 0.7 1.3 0.5 81.4illinois 15,149 94.5 22.5 0.5 1.3 22.4 0.3 52.9indiana 10,671 97.9 5.1 0.8 0.5 14.8 0.1 78.7iowa 3,981 99.8 8.1 1.9 1.1 13.3 0.1 75.6Kansas 3,041 98.0 14.2 2.6 1.4 9.9 0.4 71.5Kentucky 8,662 100.0 3.0 0.5 0.4 14.1 0.2 81.8Louisiana 7,872 98.9 2.6 1.0 0.8 30.9 0.2 64.6Maine 2,444 96.3 3.5 1.4 0.7 4.8 0.0 89.6Maryland 4,647 92.0 6.1 1.1 1.4 36.4 0.3 54.7Massachusetts 6,431 83.6 21.1 1.0 3.2 14.8 0.2 59.7Michigan 10,301 92.8 7.5 1.9 0.6 20.1 0.2 69.7Minnesota 5,339 89.6 6.3 5.7 3.2 16.5 0.4 68.0Mississippi 7,520 96.9 1.8 0.9 0.4 30.6 0.2 66.1Missouri 8,959 89.6 3.3 1.3 0.6 14.9 0.2 79.7Montana 2,003 92.9 5.9 12.1 1.0 1.8 0.5 78.7nebraska 2,156 97.7 15.7 4.1 0.7 10.8 0.2 68.5nevada 4,126 87.1 26.8 2.4 2.4 12.4 2.2 53.7new Hampshire 1,661 95.2 4.0 1.2 0.6 2.3 0.3 91.6new Jersey 7,759 94.5 26.0 0.5 2.3 28.5 0.3 42.2new Mexico 4,799 92.2 52.7 10.4 1.1 2.2 0.3 33.3new York 23,882 85.9 24.4 0.9 3.5 28.1 0.2 42.9north carolina 13,212 91.2 7.3 1.3 1.0 25.6 0.2 64.7north dakota 918 94.9 5.1 22.3 0.9 2.6 0.0 69.1Ohio 12,590 76.4 3.7 0.5 0.5 23.9 0.2 71.1Oklahoma 6,254 94.9 8.1 16.4 0.6 10.2 0.3 64.3Oregon 8,709 93.9 15.1 3.6 1.6 3.8 1.0 74.9pennsylvania 12,908 88.8 13.6 0.8 1.2 24.1 0.5 59.8Rhode island 1,350 99.8 18.1 2.0 3.1 11.9 0.4 64.5south carolina 6,617 96.4 2.8 1.1 0.6 28.2 0.2 67.1south dakota 1,125 98.2 4.1 22.6 1.1 3.4 0.2 68.7Tennessee 10,441 95.0 3.8 0.7 0.7 17.8 0.2 76.9Texas 31,366 96.7 43.2 0.8 1.0 14.2 0.3 40.5Utah 5,673 100.0 14.9 2.3 1.3 2.9 1.2 77.5Vermont 602 93.2 9.3 2.0 0.5 9.5 0.3 78.4Virginia 13,742 95.1 6.8 0.8 1.8 31.9 0.4 58.4Washington 11,623 97.0 13.8 5.5 3.0 7.4 2.0 68.4West Virginia NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NAWisconsin 7,111 89.7 11.7 4.3 1.8 18.7 0.2 63.2Wyoming 1,420 97.6 12.7 5.7 0.6 2.6 0.4 78.0

U.s. subtotal 414,082 93.3 17.9 2.1 1.7 18.2 0.6 59.5

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Guam 138 98.6 1.4 0.0 22.5 0.7 70.3 5.1Marshall islands 6 100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 83.3 16.7northern Mariana islands 10 100.0 0.0 0.0 20.0 0.0 70.0 10.0palau 12 92.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0 0.0puerto Rico NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NAVirgin islands 89 98.9 4.5 0.0 0.0 85.4 0.0 10.1

insular Areas subtotal 260 98.1 2.3 0.0 12.7 29.6 48.5 6.9

dAnTes 5,007 98.3 12.2 1.7 1.7 10.9 1.1 72.3Federal Bureau of prisons 3,616 62.7 24.2 2.4 0.9 49.9 0.5 21.9international NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NAMichigan prisons 1,537 86.2 4.7 1.3 0.7 54.5 0.1 38.7VA Hospitals – – – – – – – –inter-Regional contracts subtotal 10,160 80.4 15.3 1.9 1.3 31.4 0.8 49.3

program Total 424,502 93.0 17.8 2.1 1.7 18.5 0.7 59.2

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NA = Not available.

– = Not applicable or not possible to calculate.

* = Not reported due to small numbers.1. Canadian data on ethnicity were not available because of legal restrictions on collecting such data.2. Percentages of candidates of other races are not reported because such percentages are below one percent in all jurisdictions.

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Alabama 8,419 96.6 0.2 0.4 1.8 8.9 18.9 29.1 32.4 8.4 11Alaska 1,455 96.5 0.2 0.5 0.9 6.5 16.9 29.4 38.1 7.5 11Arizona 11,224 93.2 0.5 0.6 0.8 6.5 14.4 26.3 41.1 9.8 11Arkansas 6,895 96.9 0.3 0.5 1.6 6.5 17.0 30.2 37.4 6.6 11california 30,137 89.9 0.4 0.6 0.5 2.7 9.1 21.3 48.9 16.6 11colorado 9,993 100.0 0.6 0.8 1.0 6.1 15.2 28.0 39.4 8.9 11connecticut 2,986 98.6 0.2 0.2 0.4 5.8 19.8 31.9 35.2 6.3 11delaware 814 99.1 0.0 0.4 1.2 13.6 23.3 30.1 27.0 4.3 10district of columbia 474 98.1 0.6 0.6 0.4 7.4 17.7 26.2 39.2 7.8 11Florida 32,659 99.9 2.1 0.3 1.0 7.1 15.9 25.7 35.8 12.0 11Georgia NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NAHawaii 1,388 97.8 0.9 0.2 0.5 8.4 17.1 30.6 37.1 5.2 11idaho 3,164 87.7 0.7 0.4 1.0 5.9 16.7 29.9 37.6 7.8 11illinois 13,666 85.3 0.2 0.6 0.7 6.2 15.9 29.0 39.1 8.3 11indiana 6,131 56.2 0.3 0.6 1.5 14.8 28.6 52.4 1.5 0.2 10iowa 3,789 95.0 0.2 0.3 0.6 5.5 14.8 32.4 42.3 4.0 11Kansas 2,996 96.6 0.5 0.4 0.7 6.3 17.7 32.3 36.2 6.0 11Kentucky 8,424 97.2 0.3 0.5 1.0 8.6 21.0 31.2 33.3 4.1 11Louisiana 7,847 98.6 0.3 1.1 3.5 13.2 22.5 27.9 28.2 3.4 11Maine 2,408 94.8 0.3 0.3 0.8 10.3 17.0 30.1 35.9 5.3 11Maryland 4,745 93.9 0.3 0.2 1.1 9.2 19.2 31.5 32.6 5.7 11Massachusetts 6,494 84.5 0.3 0.3 0.9 9.1 20.6 30.4 32.3 6.1 11Michigan 10,409 93.8 0.2 0.2 0.6 5.6 16.1 31.5 40.6 5.3 11Minnesota 5,389 90.4 0.2 0.1 0.5 3.2 10.7 26.0 50.8 8.4 11Mississippi 7,464 96.2 0.4 0.6 2.8 11.8 22.7 29.3 27.9 4.6 10Missouri 9,204 92.0 0.4 0.3 1.0 7.0 17.4 31.7 37.1 5.1 11Montana 2,033 94.3 0.6 0.4 0.9 6.9 17.6 31.4 35.7 6.5 11nebraska 2,143 97.1 0.0 0.6 0.6 5.4 15.5 31.3 37.4 9.2 11nevada 3,993 84.3 0.3 0.4 0.6 5.6 13.6 26.8 41.2 11.5 11new Hampshire 1,656 94.9 0.3 0.1 1.1 7.1 18.6 30.7 37.6 4.5 11new Jersey 7,707 93.9 0.6 0.5 0.8 5.9 16.3 28.9 37.5 9.4 11new Mexico 4,924 94.6 0.4 0.6 0.7 6.5 17.4 29.0 33.5 11.8 11new York NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NAnorth carolina 12,599 86.9 0.6 0.5 2.5 12.7 24.4 30.3 25.7 3.3 10north dakota 911 94.2 0.2 0.1 1.0 7.4 19.6 32.3 36.3 3.1 11Ohio 16,464 99.9 1.2 0.2 0.7 7.3 16.3 28.8 39.8 5.7 11Oklahoma 6,355 96.4 0.3 0.8 1.3 9.3 20.1 30.2 34.1 3.9 11Oregon 8,481 91.4 1.1 0.9 0.8 5.8 14.4 28.6 39.1 9.1 11pennsylvania 13,613 93.7 0.2 0.2 0.7 6.1 16.8 29.7 37.6 8.6 11Rhode island 1,304 96.4 0.0 0.4 0.6 8.7 18.9 30.8 35.3 5.4 11south carolina 6,699 97.6 0.1 0.3 0.9 8.6 22.2 33.1 31.0 3.8 10south dakota 1,124 98.1 0.0 0.3 0.5 8.7 20.6 31.4 35.4 3.1 11Tennessee 10,577 96.3 0.2 0.3 0.9 6.3 15.7 29.1 41.5 5.9 11Texas 30,600 94.4 0.4 1.0 1.4 9.7 20.1 27.4 30.9 9.1 11Utah 4,457 78.5 0.9 0.4 0.7 3.3 8.5 23.0 46.5 16.5 11Vermont 599 92.7 0.2 0.0 0.5 7.7 17.4 30.2 37.7 6.3 11Virginia 13,850 95.8 0.3 0.4 1.3 8.7 20.0 29.0 34.6 5.7 11Washington 11,480 95.8 0.9 0.7 0.8 4.5 13.0 27.2 42.9 10.0 11West Virginia 4,336 96.5 0.1 0.1 0.6 4.6 13.3 24.7 31.7 25 11Wisconsin 7,142 90.1 0.2 0.3 0.6 6.0 13.8 26.5 47.1 5.4 11Wyoming 1,413 97.1 0.7 0.8 0.6 5.2 17.6 32.8 37.4 5.0 11

U.s. subtotal 373,034 92.9 0.6 0.5 1.1 7.2 16.9 28.5 36.8 8.4 11

APPENDIX Opercentage of Ged® Test passers, by Highest Grade completed and Mode Highest Grade completed: 2009

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Guam 138 98.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.6 10.1 33.3 47.1 5.8 11Marshall islands 6 100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 66.7 16.7 16.7 10northern Mariana islands 10 100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 10.0 30.0 60.0 0.0 11palau 12 92.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 8.3 8.3 25.0 58.3 0.0 11puerto Rico NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NAVirgin islands 90 100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 7.8 14.4 22.2 28.9 26.7 11

insular Areas subtotal 262 98.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.0 11.8 29.0 41.6 12.6 11

dAnTes 5,031 98.7 0.1 0.1 0.1 1.9 14.2 28.3 48.7 6.7 11Federal Bureau of prisons 5,166 89.6 0.5 1.6 2.4 12.2 22.4 26.6 27.1 7.1 11international 781 59.3 1.8 0.4 0.9 1.7 7.9 30.1 36.5 20.7 11Michigan prisons 1,545 86.6 0.4 0.7 1.4 8.9 18.3 28.5 35.1 6.7 11VA Hospitals – – – – – – – – – – –inter-Regional contracts subtotal 12,523 89.7 0.4 0.8 1.3 7.0 17.7 27.8 37.3 7.7 11

program Total 385,819 92.8 0.6 0.5 1.1 7.2 17.0 28.5 36.8 8.4 11

Source: 2009 GED Testing Service® data.

NA = Not available.

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Alabama 6,242 71.6 13.3 19.1 11.8 18.0 14.3 16.0 7.5 6.7 8.3Alaska 1,256 83.3 17.1 23.6 10.4 18.0 16.2 11.1 3.7 5.1 7.3Arizona 10,450 86.8 10.3 16.7 10.6 18.4 16.0 17.4 10.5 7.9 8.9Arkansas 6,468 90.9 22.0 19.7 9.0 13.5 12.1 14.7 9.0 6.6 9.0california 27,494 82.0 9.8 14.5 10.7 17.1 16.2 18.5 13.3 8.7 9.3colorado 9,557 95.6 12.0 17.2 11.9 17.8 15.9 16.3 8.9 7.2 8.4connecticut 3,028 100.0 3.5 14.0 12.8 24.6 18.2 17.7 9.2 7.9 8.1delaware 780 95.0 5.1 11.2 14.6 21.2 20.5 19.7 7.7 7.9 8.8district of columbia 423 87.6 4.0 20.1 13.0 23.4 19.6 15.4 4.5 6.5 7.6Florida 29,142 89.2 19.0 20.3 12.5 17.5 12.5 11.3 7.0 5.7 7.9Georgia 13,322 71.6 10.0 19.2 12.1 19.8 15.7 15.1 8.0 6.9 8.2Hawaii 1,286 90.6 26.4 24.8 11.2 14.2 9.9 8.9 4.5 4.4 7.4idaho 2,962 82.1 13.9 20.8 11.2 17.1 14.3 14.5 8.1 6.7 8.4illinois 12,349 77.1 10.3 17.4 12.8 18.4 15.4 16.7 9.1 7.3 8.5indiana 9,584 87.9 11.0 17.9 11.3 16.6 16.2 17.0 10.0 7.7 9.1iowa 3,971 99.5 9.0 17.4 13.3 19.3 16.4 16.4 8.2 7.2 8.5Kansas 2,905 93.6 11.5 21.7 13.7 16.4 16.2 14.7 5.6 6.1 7.5Kentucky 7,915 91.3 11.3 17.3 11.0 16.4 16.7 17.8 9.5 7.6 8.8Louisiana 7,874 98.9 15.8 22.6 12.3 16.7 12.9 13.9 5.7 5.7 7.4Maine 2,204 86.8 8.1 17.9 14.8 20.3 17.0 12.3 9.6 7.1 8.7Maryland 4,186 82.8 8.2 19.6 13.3 19.7 17.0 14.4 7.7 6.8 8.0Massachusetts 5,678 73.9 14.2 20.2 13.9 18.8 14.1 11.1 7.6 6.1 8.2Michigan 9,571 86.3 9.4 16.0 12.8 20.4 16.5 16.3 8.6 7.3 8.4Minnesota 4,908 82.3 8.8 15.3 12.4 20.3 19.2 15.9 8.2 7.4 8.6Mississippi 7,162 92.3 17.9 19.9 10.7 16.1 14.2 14.9 6.3 6.1 7.9Missouri 8,368 83.7 17.0 20.4 9.8 14.9 14.4 15.4 8.2 6.7 8.5Montana 1,838 85.3 17.7 22.8 13.2 16.6 14.0 10.3 5.4 5.3 7.7nebraska 1,996 90.5 9.2 19.6 12.2 17.6 17.7 16.2 7.5 7.0 8.0nevada 3,492 73.7 13.1 15.0 10.4 17.5 17.2 16.8 10.1 7.6 8.8new Hampshire 1,678 96.2 14.6 16.3 9.8 19.5 17.1 13.3 9.3 7.0 8.4new Jersey 7,209 87.8 12.9 18.9 10.0 15.2 15.6 17.1 10.3 7.6 8.8new Mexico 4,371 84.0 17.5 21.6 11.5 17.6 13.6 12.9 5.2 5.6 7.6new York NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NAnorth carolina 12,167 83.9 7.8 14.7 11.5 18.1 16.5 19.1 12.3 8.7 9.5north dakota 890 92.0 15.1 23.6 15.2 18.0 12.5 11.3 4.4 5.1 7.1Ohio 14,926 90.5 7.9 13.0 10.6 20.1 19.4 19.1 10.0 8.3 8.8Oklahoma 5,937 90.1 11.8 17.8 11.9 16.2 16.7 17.0 8.6 7.3 8.5Oregon 8,214 88.6 13.9 20.1 12.3 15.5 12.7 15.3 10.2 7.2 9.0pennsylvania 12,757 87.8 10.6 18.1 11.6 19.0 16.5 15.0 9.1 7.2 8.6Rhode island 1,201 88.8 13.7 25.5 13.7 17.7 13.6 9.0 6.9 5.4 7.3south carolina 6,369 92.8 10.6 18.6 13.3 20.6 14.1 14.8 8.0 6.9 8.7south dakota 1,030 89.9 11.7 24.1 12.7 17.7 14.0 12.7 7.2 6.3 8.4Tennessee 9,725 88.5 10.2 14.7 9.8 16.8 17.9 18.9 11.6 8.5 9.2Texas 28,323 87.4 11.2 16.0 10.6 17.1 16.4 19.0 9.6 7.8 8.7Utah 4,238 74.7 19.3 19.2 13.5 17.9 12.9 11.7 5.5 5.4 7.3Vermont 531 82.2 12.6 27.3 14.7 17.5 13.2 9.6 5.1 5.0 7.0Virginia 13,415 92.8 17.8 17.9 10.3 15.3 14.8 14.6 9.2 7.0 8.9Washington 8,459 70.6 12.4 20.1 12.0 17.9 15.0 14.9 7.7 6.6 8.2West Virginia 4,330 96.4 16.5 21.2 10.6 14.7 15.3 14.2 7.5 6.4 8.2Wisconsin 6,560 82.8 8.8 17.5 10.6 15.8 18.0 18.8 10.5 8.1 9.0Wyoming 1,299 89.3 14.1 19.6 13.3 19.1 14.4 12.5 7.0 6.1 7.7

U.s. subtotal 360,040 85.7 12.5 17.8 11.5 17.6 15.6 15.9 9.1 7.2 8.6

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Guam 139 99.3 6.5 16.5 21.6 25.2 11.5 15.1 3.6 5.5 5.8Marshall islands 6 100.0 16.7 16.7 0.0 0.0 50.0 0.0 16.7 8.2 8.3northern Mariana islands 9 90.0 0.0 22.2 11.1 22.2 33.3 11.1 0.0 6.0 5.5palau 11 84.6 9.1 9.1 9.1 45.5 9.1 18.2 0.0 5.1 4.9puerto Rico NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NAVirgin islands 87 96.7 12.6 23.0 9.2 23.0 13.8 11.5 6.9 6.1 8.1

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dAnTes 4,743 93.1 9.3 23.9 19.1 25.5 14.6 6.8 0.8 3.9 4.5Federal Bureau of prisons 4,176 72.4 1.1 0.6 1.1 6.7 19.7 44.0 26.8 16.1 9.3international 719 54.6 35.2 28.5 11.3 12.9 5.4 4.6 2.1 2.7 5.1Michigan prisons 1,419 79.5 2.5 5.6 6.5 19.8 21.7 26.1 17.8 11.7 10.0VA Hospitals – – – – – – – – – – –inter-Regional contracts subtotal 11,057 79.2 7.0 13.1 10.2 16.8 16.8 23.2 12.9 9.4 9.5

program Total 371,354 85.5 12.3 17.7 11.5 17.6 15.6 16.2 9.2 7.3 8.7

Source: 2009 GED Testing Service® data.

NA = Not available.

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(n) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%)Alabama 8,520 97.8 26.3 39.8 19.4 7.6 8.5 67.5 7.8 3.9 9.2 8.3 1.5 40.2 6.9 49.4 2.0 2.9 0.6 5.1 22.3 48.9 52.2 14.6Alaska 1,376 91.3 19.2 14.0 18.3 10.6 15.7 51.3 6.8 3.6 7.8 8.9 1.8 41.5 8.8 52.8 3.9 1.4 2.0 6.8 19.4 53.5 56.3 23.2Arizona 11,064 91.9 18.6 26.1 18.0 9.0 8.1 57.0 5.9 2.5 6.7 9.3 2.5 38.7 8.3 50.5 2.7 3.2 0.8 6.3 22.8 51.3 54.6 11.9Arkansas 6,878 96.6 25.5 27.6 17.0 6.6 7.1 57.4 5.8 3.3 7.0 10.3 2.0 37.6 7.3 49.8 8.6 6.7 0.6 14.3 21.6 54.1 56.9 19.3california 30,419 90.7 19.4 30.6 18.9 9.9 8.5 59.3 4.8 1.8 5.3 10.5 2.0 36.3 10.6 49.3 2.7 1.0 1.5 4.9 22.5 52.1 54.6 16.1colorado 9,992 100.0 23.4 29.2 17.9 10.5 9.6 59.7 4.9 2.1 5.5 8.7 2.2 40.8 8.5 50.8 3.8 4.8 1.9 10.0 22.0 55.9 58.4 16.6connecticut 3,028 100.0 21.6 32.2 21.8 12.4 9.6 68.7 3.7 1.8 4.5 0.0 1.9 6.6 10.9 17.4 3.8 2.2 0.9 5.9 16.8 43.9 46.5 13.2delaware 814 99.1 27.6 32.9 27.3 10.0 9.3 69.5 6.0 2.1 6.4 7.4 2.6 45.8 8.5 55.9 0.9 4.1 0.9 5.2 29.6 61.1 64.6 10.3district of columbia 436 90.3 39.0 26.1 18.6 12.6 15.6 72.0 2.8 2.3 3.9 11.7 2.5 38.3 11.2 52.1 3.9 1.6 0.2 5.7 21.1 40.1 44.3 17.2Florida 31,802 97.3 27.4 35.0 23.1 6.8 9.3 69.1 7.9 3.9 8.8 7.7 1.5 33.1 7.6 39.6 2.7 1.4 0.4 4.3 18.9 48.6 51.1 17.3Georgia 15,338 82.4 22.4 27.1 34.5 7.3 6.5 69.1 6.6 3.6 7.9 8.0 1.9 34.8 5.3 44.7 2.5 3.2 0.3 5.5 17.6 41.5 44.7 4.2Hawaii 1,393 98.2 37.4 36.5 11.1 8.2 7.5 66.3 12.5 6.0 14.1 14.9 1.6 33.3 8.9 49.0 7.0 1.9 0.4 8.8 18.6 49.5 52.5 18.5idaho 3,170 87.9 28.0 27.8 15.6 8.4 8.5 57.9 6.8 3.3 7.4 8.7 2.5 39.1 7.4 49.1 1.7 10.2 0.8 12.0 21.4 56.8 58.5 18.2illinois 14,026 87.5 10.4 21.2 98.6 10.4 10.4 99.3 4.3 3.6 6.7 8.5 16.0 18.2 11.3 43.4 4.7 5.5 15.6 21.4 25.9 16.9 33.3 2.3indiana 10,677 97.9 25.1 33.6 20.6 9.7 9.2 64.3 5.7 2.9 6.6 8.2 1.9 49.3 10.2 59.4 11.6 5.0 0.4 15.7 27.4 60.2 63.0 15.5iowa 3,165 79.3 16.5 35.1 11.5 5.7 6.6 53.3 4.1 1.6 4.6 6.3 1.5 43.3 6.7 51.0 1.3 10.0 3.5 14.5 20.6 57.1 59.7 15.4Kansas 2,992 96.5 23.9 32.6 21.4 9.2 9.1 64.5 5.5 4.1 7.1 7.1 2.0 44.7 5.7 52.5 2.9 7.4 1.4 10.6 24.8 55.9 58.5 12.3Kentucky 8,309 95.9 23.6 28.5 20.6 8.8 12.2 61.1 4.6 2.8 5.3 10.3 2.2 40.7 6.8 51.4 4.3 4.3 0.8 9.1 23.2 55.6 58.2 13.5Louisiana 7,756 97.4 26.3 24.3 32.5 10.0 10.0 68.2 7.1 4.1 8.3 10.1 1.3 36.5 8.1 48.1 5.6 3.1 0.4 8.5 23.8 51.9 55.1 15.8Maine 2,454 96.7 21.3 28.9 18.1 7.9 13.9 60.4 6.4 3.4 7.5 8.9 1.6 43.4 8.2 53.5 0.9 1.2 2.6 4.6 21.0 55.7 58.2 15.8Maryland 4,762 94.2 29.0 32.7 20.8 9.7 9.8 65.2 6.5 3.0 7.3 8.7 1.8 42.5 9.7 53.3 2.4 2.6 0.3 4.7 23.8 53.0 56.3 14.9Massachusetts 6,449 83.9 27.8 37.5 21.3 11.7 12.1 71.1 4.8 1.9 5.2 8.3 1.5 39.3 8.1 48.5 1.2 2.0 2.3 5.4 21.4 50.7 53.5 14.6Michigan 10,398 93.7 24.2 35.1 17.2 8.5 10.1 63.4 6.3 2.8 7.1 11.2 2.0 42.4 8.4 55.4 1.9 7.2 1.0 9.6 24.1 57.3 59.9 15.0Minnesota 5,298 88.9 22.5 37.6 24.7 8.0 7.1 66.2 4.8 2.1 5.5 5.6 1.8 46.3 8.8 53.6 0.5 2.0 2.0 4.3 22.2 56.4 59.4 15.2Mississippi 7,468 96.2 27.6 47.6 18.4 8.8 10.1 71.2 7.6 4.2 8.8 11.1 1.8 42.0 8.5 54.2 2.4 3.8 0.5 6.3 23.9 51.7 55.3 16.3Missouri 8,968 89.7 26.5 32.6 21.3 8.6 9.1 63.5 5.6 3.0 6.5 7.6 2.1 44.8 7.8 53.1 2.9 5.7 0.4 8.6 27.7 60.2 63.0 21.4Montana 2,023 93.9 26.0 24.8 17.0 9.4 10.8 61.3 7.9 3.6 9.2 7.2 2.2 39.6 8.4 49.0 2.5 6.5 1.0 9.4 19.2 53.9 56.3 18.1nebraska 2,165 98.1 24.9 38.5 17.0 8.0 7.9 63.6 5.6 2.1 6.3 6.2 2.5 51.9 8.1 59.2 3.0 6.2 0.9 9.8 27.6 63.5 66.1 16.4nevada 4,012 84.7 18.9 24.6 16.8 8.5 7.9 51.7 6.3 2.3 6.9 7.8 2.2 39.1 11.4 49.3 4.8 3.2 0.9 8.5 21.0 51.6 54.0 17.9new Hampshire 1,655 94.8 17.8 29.7 22.8 8.5 8.9 57.6 6.2 3.1 7.5 6.1 1.5 44.7 8.5 53.4 3.5 2.3 1.6 6.9 19.3 57.9 59.6 17.6new Jersey 7,722 94.0 29.9 37.7 28.6 13.7 14.0 75.1 5.0 2.6 5.7 9.2 2.1 41.7 9.8 51.8 1.5 1.6 1.1 4.0 25.9 53.9 57.4 11.6new Mexico 4,954 95.2 30.9 28.7 16.1 9.7 10.7 66.2 5.1 2.4 5.8 7.3 2.2 41.7 9.3 50.9 3.0 2.5 0.6 5.6 21.5 51.2 53.4 17.7new York NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NAnorth carolina 12,364 85.3 19.8 36.4 19.9 8.2 7.9 64.9 7.8 2.9 8.7 8.0 1.5 37.6 6.5 46.8 4.9 4.2 1.2 9.6 22.2 49.3 52.1 13.1north dakota 909 94.0 22.7 29.7 16.7 4.6 5.5 56.8 5.6 2.4 6.5 6.6 2.1 35.3 16.4 53.5 3.7 3.6 1.8 8.3 16.2 47.2 50.3 14.7Ohio 11,534 70.0 23.6 40.0 24.3 6.3 11.1 69.5 4.5 2.0 5.2 6.4 2.0 36.6 5.2 44.3 1.7 4.5 0.8 6.7 24.2 44.9 50.4 13.0Oklahoma 6,374 96.7 19.9 21.3 25.4 8.8 10.0 57.2 5.9 3.2 6.9 7.0 2.5 42.5 8.4 51.6 8.0 8.0 1.6 14.2 25.6 56.8 59.5 18.6Oregon 8,410 90.7 21.5 35.7 14.6 11.1 11.6 62.0 3.9 1.7 4.3 14.0 1.7 38.7 8.5 53.3 3.1 2.0 1.3 6.1 20.9 55.8 57.8 20.3pennsylvania 13,631 93.8 21.5 26.4 27.1 9.9 12.6 63.6 4.8 2.2 5.6 8.5 2.2 44.6 10.7 55.1 3.2 6.3 1.4 9.9 24.3 54.8 58.6 13.3Rhode island NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NAsouth carolina 6,626 96.5 23.3 35.5 35.3 10.5 11.7 74.0 9.6 5.2 11.0 8.9 1.9 42.2 9.7 53.0 1.2 2.5 0.6 4.1 24.3 51.4 54.9 11.1south dakota 1,129 98.5 21.3 23.4 18.3 6.6 12.6 57.8 7.3 2.4 7.6 5.8 1.9 41.3 7.4 48.0 2.8 6.8 0.6 9.7 19.8 54.1 56.0 22.3Tennessee 10,562 96.1 23.7 27.6 26.3 7.8 8.4 63.1 5.0 2.2 5.8 7.5 1.5 44.8 7.7 54.1 3.3 3.0 1.1 7.1 23.5 51.6 54.5 15.2Texas 30,762 94.9 23.8 33.0 21.9 12.1 10.6 64.0 5.7 2.7 6.4 8.9 2.4 44.6 9.7 54.1 4.5 8.6 0.6 13.2 28.0 54.8 58.4 16.1Utah 3,989 70.3 23.2 23.8 18.9 10.8 10.8 57.4 4.9 2.2 5.3 5.8 2.9 41.0 9.2 48.9 2.3 4.9 1.4 8.1 20.7 56.2 58.0 20.9Vermont 317 49.1 27.4 30.9 23.0 16.4 17.4 66.6 7.9 4.4 8.5 19.6 2.2 53.0 16.7 73.5 0.6 0.6 2.5 3.8 24.6 78.9 82.0 19.6Virginia 13,734 95.0 20.7 32.9 18.1 9.7 9.7 58.9 9.5 5.3 11.0 9.1 2.4 41.2 8.2 51.4 3.6 3.1 0.9 6.5 22.7 53.9 57.0 15.4Washington 8,895 74.2 18.4 34.6 20.2 11.6 12.1 62.6 6.4 3.8 8.1 14.0 4.1 41.6 12.4 56.8 2.6 4.5 5.2 10.2 18.5 48.9 52.0 16.5West Virginia 4,362 97.1 23.4 22.8 22.4 11.1 14.3 59.8 6.2 4.3 7.5 12.3 1.9 46.3 9.6 58.4 3.3 6.2 3.1 11.0 22.2 52.4 54.7 16.9Wisconsin 6,950 87.7 17.2 28.2 29.2 9.5 8.6 59.7 4.6 2.6 5.6 6.1 1.8 44.5 8.1 51.7 2.2 3.8 0.7 6.3 22.7 57.4 60.1 20.7Wyoming 1,413 97.1 20.7 29.4 9.8 7.5 9.2 52.4 5.4 2.3 6.4 4.4 2.1 42.3 5.5 49.3 1.4 10.6 1.2 12.5 18.6 50.0 53.4 15.2

U.s. subtotal 381,444 91.0 22.9 31.6 24.7 9.3 9.8 65.1 6.0 3.0 7.0 8.8 2.5 39.3 8.7 50.0 3.5 4.2 1.6 8.5 22.9 51.3 54.7 14.9

Source: 2009 GED Testing Service® data.

APPENDIX Q1percentage of passers Reporting Various Reasons for Taking the Ged® Test in the United states: 2009

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(n) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%)Alabama 8,520 97.8 26.3 39.8 19.4 7.6 8.5 67.5 7.8 3.9 9.2 8.3 1.5 40.2 6.9 49.4 2.0 2.9 0.6 5.1 22.3 48.9 52.2 14.6Alaska 1,376 91.3 19.2 14.0 18.3 10.6 15.7 51.3 6.8 3.6 7.8 8.9 1.8 41.5 8.8 52.8 3.9 1.4 2.0 6.8 19.4 53.5 56.3 23.2Arizona 11,064 91.9 18.6 26.1 18.0 9.0 8.1 57.0 5.9 2.5 6.7 9.3 2.5 38.7 8.3 50.5 2.7 3.2 0.8 6.3 22.8 51.3 54.6 11.9Arkansas 6,878 96.6 25.5 27.6 17.0 6.6 7.1 57.4 5.8 3.3 7.0 10.3 2.0 37.6 7.3 49.8 8.6 6.7 0.6 14.3 21.6 54.1 56.9 19.3california 30,419 90.7 19.4 30.6 18.9 9.9 8.5 59.3 4.8 1.8 5.3 10.5 2.0 36.3 10.6 49.3 2.7 1.0 1.5 4.9 22.5 52.1 54.6 16.1colorado 9,992 100.0 23.4 29.2 17.9 10.5 9.6 59.7 4.9 2.1 5.5 8.7 2.2 40.8 8.5 50.8 3.8 4.8 1.9 10.0 22.0 55.9 58.4 16.6connecticut 3,028 100.0 21.6 32.2 21.8 12.4 9.6 68.7 3.7 1.8 4.5 0.0 1.9 6.6 10.9 17.4 3.8 2.2 0.9 5.9 16.8 43.9 46.5 13.2delaware 814 99.1 27.6 32.9 27.3 10.0 9.3 69.5 6.0 2.1 6.4 7.4 2.6 45.8 8.5 55.9 0.9 4.1 0.9 5.2 29.6 61.1 64.6 10.3district of columbia 436 90.3 39.0 26.1 18.6 12.6 15.6 72.0 2.8 2.3 3.9 11.7 2.5 38.3 11.2 52.1 3.9 1.6 0.2 5.7 21.1 40.1 44.3 17.2Florida 31,802 97.3 27.4 35.0 23.1 6.8 9.3 69.1 7.9 3.9 8.8 7.7 1.5 33.1 7.6 39.6 2.7 1.4 0.4 4.3 18.9 48.6 51.1 17.3Georgia 15,338 82.4 22.4 27.1 34.5 7.3 6.5 69.1 6.6 3.6 7.9 8.0 1.9 34.8 5.3 44.7 2.5 3.2 0.3 5.5 17.6 41.5 44.7 4.2Hawaii 1,393 98.2 37.4 36.5 11.1 8.2 7.5 66.3 12.5 6.0 14.1 14.9 1.6 33.3 8.9 49.0 7.0 1.9 0.4 8.8 18.6 49.5 52.5 18.5idaho 3,170 87.9 28.0 27.8 15.6 8.4 8.5 57.9 6.8 3.3 7.4 8.7 2.5 39.1 7.4 49.1 1.7 10.2 0.8 12.0 21.4 56.8 58.5 18.2illinois 14,026 87.5 10.4 21.2 98.6 10.4 10.4 99.3 4.3 3.6 6.7 8.5 16.0 18.2 11.3 43.4 4.7 5.5 15.6 21.4 25.9 16.9 33.3 2.3indiana 10,677 97.9 25.1 33.6 20.6 9.7 9.2 64.3 5.7 2.9 6.6 8.2 1.9 49.3 10.2 59.4 11.6 5.0 0.4 15.7 27.4 60.2 63.0 15.5iowa 3,165 79.3 16.5 35.1 11.5 5.7 6.6 53.3 4.1 1.6 4.6 6.3 1.5 43.3 6.7 51.0 1.3 10.0 3.5 14.5 20.6 57.1 59.7 15.4Kansas 2,992 96.5 23.9 32.6 21.4 9.2 9.1 64.5 5.5 4.1 7.1 7.1 2.0 44.7 5.7 52.5 2.9 7.4 1.4 10.6 24.8 55.9 58.5 12.3Kentucky 8,309 95.9 23.6 28.5 20.6 8.8 12.2 61.1 4.6 2.8 5.3 10.3 2.2 40.7 6.8 51.4 4.3 4.3 0.8 9.1 23.2 55.6 58.2 13.5Louisiana 7,756 97.4 26.3 24.3 32.5 10.0 10.0 68.2 7.1 4.1 8.3 10.1 1.3 36.5 8.1 48.1 5.6 3.1 0.4 8.5 23.8 51.9 55.1 15.8Maine 2,454 96.7 21.3 28.9 18.1 7.9 13.9 60.4 6.4 3.4 7.5 8.9 1.6 43.4 8.2 53.5 0.9 1.2 2.6 4.6 21.0 55.7 58.2 15.8Maryland 4,762 94.2 29.0 32.7 20.8 9.7 9.8 65.2 6.5 3.0 7.3 8.7 1.8 42.5 9.7 53.3 2.4 2.6 0.3 4.7 23.8 53.0 56.3 14.9Massachusetts 6,449 83.9 27.8 37.5 21.3 11.7 12.1 71.1 4.8 1.9 5.2 8.3 1.5 39.3 8.1 48.5 1.2 2.0 2.3 5.4 21.4 50.7 53.5 14.6Michigan 10,398 93.7 24.2 35.1 17.2 8.5 10.1 63.4 6.3 2.8 7.1 11.2 2.0 42.4 8.4 55.4 1.9 7.2 1.0 9.6 24.1 57.3 59.9 15.0Minnesota 5,298 88.9 22.5 37.6 24.7 8.0 7.1 66.2 4.8 2.1 5.5 5.6 1.8 46.3 8.8 53.6 0.5 2.0 2.0 4.3 22.2 56.4 59.4 15.2Mississippi 7,468 96.2 27.6 47.6 18.4 8.8 10.1 71.2 7.6 4.2 8.8 11.1 1.8 42.0 8.5 54.2 2.4 3.8 0.5 6.3 23.9 51.7 55.3 16.3Missouri 8,968 89.7 26.5 32.6 21.3 8.6 9.1 63.5 5.6 3.0 6.5 7.6 2.1 44.8 7.8 53.1 2.9 5.7 0.4 8.6 27.7 60.2 63.0 21.4Montana 2,023 93.9 26.0 24.8 17.0 9.4 10.8 61.3 7.9 3.6 9.2 7.2 2.2 39.6 8.4 49.0 2.5 6.5 1.0 9.4 19.2 53.9 56.3 18.1nebraska 2,165 98.1 24.9 38.5 17.0 8.0 7.9 63.6 5.6 2.1 6.3 6.2 2.5 51.9 8.1 59.2 3.0 6.2 0.9 9.8 27.6 63.5 66.1 16.4nevada 4,012 84.7 18.9 24.6 16.8 8.5 7.9 51.7 6.3 2.3 6.9 7.8 2.2 39.1 11.4 49.3 4.8 3.2 0.9 8.5 21.0 51.6 54.0 17.9new Hampshire 1,655 94.8 17.8 29.7 22.8 8.5 8.9 57.6 6.2 3.1 7.5 6.1 1.5 44.7 8.5 53.4 3.5 2.3 1.6 6.9 19.3 57.9 59.6 17.6new Jersey 7,722 94.0 29.9 37.7 28.6 13.7 14.0 75.1 5.0 2.6 5.7 9.2 2.1 41.7 9.8 51.8 1.5 1.6 1.1 4.0 25.9 53.9 57.4 11.6new Mexico 4,954 95.2 30.9 28.7 16.1 9.7 10.7 66.2 5.1 2.4 5.8 7.3 2.2 41.7 9.3 50.9 3.0 2.5 0.6 5.6 21.5 51.2 53.4 17.7new York NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NAnorth carolina 12,364 85.3 19.8 36.4 19.9 8.2 7.9 64.9 7.8 2.9 8.7 8.0 1.5 37.6 6.5 46.8 4.9 4.2 1.2 9.6 22.2 49.3 52.1 13.1north dakota 909 94.0 22.7 29.7 16.7 4.6 5.5 56.8 5.6 2.4 6.5 6.6 2.1 35.3 16.4 53.5 3.7 3.6 1.8 8.3 16.2 47.2 50.3 14.7Ohio 11,534 70.0 23.6 40.0 24.3 6.3 11.1 69.5 4.5 2.0 5.2 6.4 2.0 36.6 5.2 44.3 1.7 4.5 0.8 6.7 24.2 44.9 50.4 13.0Oklahoma 6,374 96.7 19.9 21.3 25.4 8.8 10.0 57.2 5.9 3.2 6.9 7.0 2.5 42.5 8.4 51.6 8.0 8.0 1.6 14.2 25.6 56.8 59.5 18.6Oregon 8,410 90.7 21.5 35.7 14.6 11.1 11.6 62.0 3.9 1.7 4.3 14.0 1.7 38.7 8.5 53.3 3.1 2.0 1.3 6.1 20.9 55.8 57.8 20.3pennsylvania 13,631 93.8 21.5 26.4 27.1 9.9 12.6 63.6 4.8 2.2 5.6 8.5 2.2 44.6 10.7 55.1 3.2 6.3 1.4 9.9 24.3 54.8 58.6 13.3Rhode island NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NAsouth carolina 6,626 96.5 23.3 35.5 35.3 10.5 11.7 74.0 9.6 5.2 11.0 8.9 1.9 42.2 9.7 53.0 1.2 2.5 0.6 4.1 24.3 51.4 54.9 11.1south dakota 1,129 98.5 21.3 23.4 18.3 6.6 12.6 57.8 7.3 2.4 7.6 5.8 1.9 41.3 7.4 48.0 2.8 6.8 0.6 9.7 19.8 54.1 56.0 22.3Tennessee 10,562 96.1 23.7 27.6 26.3 7.8 8.4 63.1 5.0 2.2 5.8 7.5 1.5 44.8 7.7 54.1 3.3 3.0 1.1 7.1 23.5 51.6 54.5 15.2Texas 30,762 94.9 23.8 33.0 21.9 12.1 10.6 64.0 5.7 2.7 6.4 8.9 2.4 44.6 9.7 54.1 4.5 8.6 0.6 13.2 28.0 54.8 58.4 16.1Utah 3,989 70.3 23.2 23.8 18.9 10.8 10.8 57.4 4.9 2.2 5.3 5.8 2.9 41.0 9.2 48.9 2.3 4.9 1.4 8.1 20.7 56.2 58.0 20.9Vermont 317 49.1 27.4 30.9 23.0 16.4 17.4 66.6 7.9 4.4 8.5 19.6 2.2 53.0 16.7 73.5 0.6 0.6 2.5 3.8 24.6 78.9 82.0 19.6Virginia 13,734 95.0 20.7 32.9 18.1 9.7 9.7 58.9 9.5 5.3 11.0 9.1 2.4 41.2 8.2 51.4 3.6 3.1 0.9 6.5 22.7 53.9 57.0 15.4Washington 8,895 74.2 18.4 34.6 20.2 11.6 12.1 62.6 6.4 3.8 8.1 14.0 4.1 41.6 12.4 56.8 2.6 4.5 5.2 10.2 18.5 48.9 52.0 16.5West Virginia 4,362 97.1 23.4 22.8 22.4 11.1 14.3 59.8 6.2 4.3 7.5 12.3 1.9 46.3 9.6 58.4 3.3 6.2 3.1 11.0 22.2 52.4 54.7 16.9Wisconsin 6,950 87.7 17.2 28.2 29.2 9.5 8.6 59.7 4.6 2.6 5.6 6.1 1.8 44.5 8.1 51.7 2.2 3.8 0.7 6.3 22.7 57.4 60.1 20.7Wyoming 1,413 97.1 20.7 29.4 9.8 7.5 9.2 52.4 5.4 2.3 6.4 4.4 2.1 42.3 5.5 49.3 1.4 10.6 1.2 12.5 18.6 50.0 53.4 15.2

U.s. subtotal 381,444 91.0 22.9 31.6 24.7 9.3 9.8 65.1 6.0 3.0 7.0 8.8 2.5 39.3 8.7 50.0 3.5 4.2 1.6 8.5 22.9 51.3 54.7 14.9

Source: 2009 GED Testing Service® data.

NA = Not available.1. Candidates could report more than one reason for testing.

Note: Caution should be exercised in interpreting results when response rate is below 85 percent.

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(n) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%)American samoa 4 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Federated states of Micronesia 2 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Guam 140 100.0 32.9 17.1 9.3 7.1 1.4 52.9 28.6 9.3 30.7 14.3 0.7 40.0 6.4 55.7 1.4 1.4 0.0 2.9 29.3 60.7 65.0 14.3Marshall islands 6 100.0 50.0 83.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0 16.7 0.0 16.7 0.0 0.0 16.7 0.0 16.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 16.7 50.0 66.7 16.7northern Mariana islands 9 90.0 22.2 33.3 11.1 0.0 0.0 55.6 22.2 0.0 22.2 0.0 0.0 22.2 22.2 44.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 22.2 55.6 55.6 22.2palau 12 92.3 50.0 25.0 16.7 16.7 8.3 75.0 16.7 8.3 16.7 25.0 8.3 66.7 41.7 91.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 25.0 41.7 41.7 16.7puerto Rico NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NAVirgin islands 89 98.9 43.8 22.5 19.1 5.6 3.4 69.7 9.0 6.7 11.2 12.4 1.1 36.0 5.6 50.6 1.1 2.2 0.0 3.4 14.6 51.7 55.1 6.7

insular Areas subtotal 262 98.9 37.8 22.9 13.0 7.3 3.1 61.5 21.0 7.6 22.9 13.0 1.1 39.3 8.4 55.0 1.1 1.9 0.0 3.1 24.0 56.5 60.3 11.8

dAnTes 5,050 99.1 25.0 12.6 5.8 5.0 7.0 36.9 70.7 55.9 90.6 1.9 1.8 22.1 9.3 29.8 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.5 19.2 39.2 43.1 7.9Federal Bureau of prisons 4,885 84.8 12.5 17.7 28.4 14.3 13.4 47.5 0.9 0.5 1.0 5.8 1.7 39.4 13.2 45.4 4.9 9.3 0.8 13.4 35.9 72.1 76.6 16.6international 809 61.4 71.2 17.3 5.6 14.6 3.6 84.8 0.7 0.6 1.1 6.8 1.5 14.1 3.6 20.4 5.2 0.4 0.4 5.7 7.7 29.4 30.3 19.5Michigan prisons 1,527 85.6 14.1 21.2 31.0 17.9 17.7 48.7 1.1 0.6 1.2 10.1 1.4 34.1 11.3 42.6 15.5 41.4 1.6 49.5 30.5 61.0 65.4 21.3VA Hospitals – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –inter-Regional contracts subtotal 12,271 87.9 21.7 16.0 17.9 10.9 10.7 45.7 29.6 23.3 37.9 4.8 1.7 29.9 10.8 37.0 4.4 8.9 0.6 12.1 26.5 54.3 58.3 13.8

program Total 2 393,977 90.9 22.9 31.1 24.5 9.4 9.8 64.5 6.8 3.6 7.9 8.7 2.5 39.0 8.7 49.6 3.5 4.3 1.6 8.6 23.0 51.4 54.8 14.9

Source: 2009 GED Testing Service® data.

APPENDIX Q2percentage of passers Reporting Various Reasons for Taking the Ged® Test in insular Areas and inter-Regional contracts: 2009

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Guam 140 100.0 32.9 17.1 9.3 7.1 1.4 52.9 28.6 9.3 30.7 14.3 0.7 40.0 6.4 55.7 1.4 1.4 0.0 2.9 29.3 60.7 65.0 14.3Marshall islands 6 100.0 50.0 83.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0 16.7 0.0 16.7 0.0 0.0 16.7 0.0 16.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 16.7 50.0 66.7 16.7northern Mariana islands 9 90.0 22.2 33.3 11.1 0.0 0.0 55.6 22.2 0.0 22.2 0.0 0.0 22.2 22.2 44.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 22.2 55.6 55.6 22.2palau 12 92.3 50.0 25.0 16.7 16.7 8.3 75.0 16.7 8.3 16.7 25.0 8.3 66.7 41.7 91.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 25.0 41.7 41.7 16.7puerto Rico NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NAVirgin islands 89 98.9 43.8 22.5 19.1 5.6 3.4 69.7 9.0 6.7 11.2 12.4 1.1 36.0 5.6 50.6 1.1 2.2 0.0 3.4 14.6 51.7 55.1 6.7

insular Areas subtotal 262 98.9 37.8 22.9 13.0 7.3 3.1 61.5 21.0 7.6 22.9 13.0 1.1 39.3 8.4 55.0 1.1 1.9 0.0 3.1 24.0 56.5 60.3 11.8

dAnTes 5,050 99.1 25.0 12.6 5.8 5.0 7.0 36.9 70.7 55.9 90.6 1.9 1.8 22.1 9.3 29.8 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.5 19.2 39.2 43.1 7.9Federal Bureau of prisons 4,885 84.8 12.5 17.7 28.4 14.3 13.4 47.5 0.9 0.5 1.0 5.8 1.7 39.4 13.2 45.4 4.9 9.3 0.8 13.4 35.9 72.1 76.6 16.6international 809 61.4 71.2 17.3 5.6 14.6 3.6 84.8 0.7 0.6 1.1 6.8 1.5 14.1 3.6 20.4 5.2 0.4 0.4 5.7 7.7 29.4 30.3 19.5Michigan prisons 1,527 85.6 14.1 21.2 31.0 17.9 17.7 48.7 1.1 0.6 1.2 10.1 1.4 34.1 11.3 42.6 15.5 41.4 1.6 49.5 30.5 61.0 65.4 21.3VA Hospitals – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –inter-Regional contracts subtotal 12,271 87.9 21.7 16.0 17.9 10.9 10.7 45.7 29.6 23.3 37.9 4.8 1.7 29.9 10.8 37.0 4.4 8.9 0.6 12.1 26.5 54.3 58.3 13.8

program Total 2 393,977 90.9 22.9 31.1 24.5 9.4 9.8 64.5 6.8 3.6 7.9 8.7 2.5 39.0 8.7 49.6 3.5 4.3 1.6 8.6 23.0 51.4 54.8 14.9

Source: 2009 GED Testing Service® data.

NA = Not available.

* = Not reported due to small numbers.

– = Not applicable or not possible to calculate.1. Candidates could report more than one reason for testing.2. Canadian data on reasons for testing were not available because of legal restrictions on collecting such data.

Note: Caution should be exercised in interpreting results when response rate is below 85 percent.

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Alabama 8,713 470 483 60 500 515 66 510 539 92Alaska 1,507 490 497 69 530 539 75 550 569 102Arizona 12,045 500 507 71 520 532 73 540 557 99Arkansas 7,117 510 510 70 520 527 71 540 558 99california 33,535 510 515 75 530 535 72 540 557 98colorado 9,993 500 510 73 530 535 74 540 564 99connecticut 3,028 520 524 76 530 535 73 520 551 97delaware 821 500 509 66 540 549 74 560 574 98district of columbia 483 490 502 70 500 513 67 500 533 87Florida 32,683 490 498 64 520 530 70 540 555 97Georgia 18,615 510 521 74 510 524 70 520 545 96Hawaii 1,419 490 505 71 530 530 72 540 553 100idaho 3,606 510 513 74 540 543 73 560 574 102illinois 16,024 460 484 67 520 529 69 520 549 95indiana 10,905 500 505 69 550 558 74 540 558 99iowa 3,990 510 511 68 540 543 72 550 572 99Kansas 3,102 520 527 72 550 555 74 570 588 103Kentucky 8,666 490 494 65 510 524 68 520 543 95Louisiana 7,961 490 499 69 510 518 66 510 542 93Maine 2,539 480 492 66 540 542 71 550 571 100Maryland 5,053 480 491 63 530 535 70 520 551 97Massachusetts 7,688 480 498 71 520 529 73 520 551 99Michigan 11,095 480 493 67 530 540 73 540 564 98Minnesota 5,961 480 494 69 540 548 76 550 570 101Mississippi 7,760 470 483 59 500 510 64 500 535 92Missouri 10,001 490 496 65 530 541 72 540 561 100Montana 2,155 480 496 68 540 543 74 550 572 101nebraska 2,206 490 495 62 540 542 72 560 576 101nevada 4,735 480 489 63 530 532 70 540 552 96new Hampshire 1,745 500 509 79 540 547 76 550 571 102new Jersey 8,212 500 507 71 510 522 70 520 545 95new Mexico 5,206 480 496 66 520 528 68 540 553 95new York 27,815 490 499 72 510 522 68 510 543 93north carolina 14,494 490 499 66 530 534 72 540 566 99north dakota 967 460 480 59 520 534 72 540 559 99Ohio 16,486 460 480 59 530 538 70 540 558 97Oklahoma 6,592 470 486 62 520 530 71 540 558 98Oregon 9,274 500 507 76 540 545 78 560 577 104pennsylvania 14,536 470 488 64 520 531 71 540 554 97Rhode island 1,353 460 471 58 530 536 69 540 565 100south carolina 6,863 480 490 62 520 528 67 510 542 94south dakota 1,146 480 494 64 540 543 72 550 568 95Tennessee 10,985 470 487 62 520 527 68 520 547 96Texas 32,423 500 509 70 510 522 70 520 550 96Utah 5,675 510 518 73 530 541 75 550 566 102Vermont 646 470 489 71 530 545 79 550 575 102Virginia 14,454 490 498 68 510 523 69 510 541 94Washington 11,980 510 517 81 540 545 78 560 577 104West Virginia 4,493 460 480 61 510 521 66 520 544 93Wisconsin 7,925 480 492 65 530 544 77 550 570 100Wyoming 1,455 510 515 76 540 546 72 560 578 102

U.s. subtotal 448,131 490 500 70 520 531 72 540 555 98

APPENDIX R1standard score statistics for All Ged® Test passers in Language Arts, Writing; social studies; and Language Arts, Reading Tests: 2009

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Guam 140 490 504 75 500 514 66 490 529 94Marshall islands 6 450 470 64 470 487 48 530 518 37northern Mariana islands 10 540 559 85 530 541 76 490 537 112

palau 13 490 496 52 480 489 58 490 512 91puerto Rico NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NAVirgin islands 90 475 495 65 490 507 61 500 536 93

insular Areas subtotal 265 490 501 71 500 511 64 490 530 92

Alberta 1,562 550 562 74 565 569 67 620 634 98British columbia 1,021 590 604 89 570 580 70 650 638 100Manitoba 170 540 551 70 575 583 69 650 645 97new Brunswick 771 510 527 64 520 530 62 590 601 89newfoundland 122 550 555 72 530 538 62 620 622 101northwest Territories 11 630 611 93 590 595 69 670 671 106nova scotia 529 520 536 64 550 554 69 590 603 101nunavut 9 510 569 123 570 584 83 620 604 113Ontario 3,818 560 566 74 560 567 69 600 618 98prince edward island 231 530 538 65 540 549 65 590 598 98Quebec 125 560 563 74 520 527 61 640 647 68saskatchewan 715 540 550 70 530 547 68 590 600 96Yukon Territory 19 600 583 77 590 588 49 670 674 94

canada subtotal 9,103 550 562 77 560 562 69 600 620 98

dAnTes 5,095 500 511 67 550 555 68 560 577 97Federal Bureau of prisons 5,764 460 471 52 500 517 65 510 537 88

international 1,318 500 515 74 500 516 72 480 511 92Michigan prisons 1,784 450 461 50 500 510 62 500 531 86VA Hospitals – – – – – – – – – –inter-Regional contracts subtotal 13,961 470 488 64 520 530 69 520 548 95

program Total 471,460 490 501 70 520 532 72 540 556 98

Source: 2009 GED Testing Service® data.

NA = Not available.

– = Not applicable or not possible to calculate.

* = Not reported due to small numbers.

Note: Caution should be exercised in interpreting results because some results can be based on a small number of candidates.

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Alabama 8,713 530 537 69 480 486 58 500 512 51Alaska 1,507 560 571 78 510 515 69 528 538 61Arizona 12,045 540 550 76 490 494 63 516 528 59Arkansas 7,117 540 551 74 490 500 63 518 529 57california 33,535 540 549 74 480 491 63 520 529 57colorado 9,993 550 556 76 490 496 66 522 532 60connecticut 3,028 540 554 78 490 497 63 520 532 60delaware 821 550 565 79 510 516 66 534 543 57district of columbia 483 510 524 66 470 480 60 498 510 53Florida 32,683 540 553 74 500 502 64 518 528 55Georgia 18,615 530 542 73 480 488 61 512 524 58Hawaii 1,419 550 557 73 500 508 71 520 531 60idaho 3,606 560 569 80 500 505 67 532 541 61illinois 16,024 530 544 71 490 494 63 508 520 55indiana 10,905 530 534 71 500 502 62 522 532 56iowa 3,990 550 565 77 510 507 64 532 540 57Kansas 3,102 560 582 78 520 527 68 548 556 59Kentucky 8,666 540 547 70 480 490 59 508 520 54Louisiana 7,961 530 540 69 490 495 61 506 519 53Maine 2,539 550 568 78 500 503 64 526 535 57Maryland 5,053 540 552 76 490 498 64 514 525 56Massachusetts 7,688 540 548 77 490 495 66 510 524 60Michigan 11,095 550 562 78 490 495 64 520 531 57Minnesota 5,961 550 567 81 500 506 69 528 537 60Mississippi 7,760 530 534 69 480 482 55 496 509 51Missouri 10,001 550 565 74 500 506 64 524 534 57Montana 2,155 560 569 76 510 508 66 528 537 58nebraska 2,206 550 566 78 500 504 64 530 536 56nevada 4,735 540 550 72 480 490 59 512 523 54new Hampshire 1,745 560 571 78 500 506 67 530 541 62new Jersey 8,212 530 539 76 480 492 65 508 521 58new Mexico 5,206 540 548 72 490 493 62 512 524 55new York 27,815 530 537 71 480 491 64 504 518 56north carolina 14,494 540 553 75 500 503 64 522 531 57north dakota 967 550 561 78 500 510 68 518 529 58Ohio 16,486 540 554 73 490 496 60 514 525 54Oklahoma 6,592 540 551 72 490 492 59 514 523 54Oregon 9,274 560 569 82 500 505 69 531 541 63pennsylvania 14,536 540 550 76 490 495 64 510 523 57Rhode island 1,353 550 558 75 500 504 65 516 527 55south carolina 6,863 530 542 70 490 500 61 510 521 53south dakota 1,146 550 569 78 510 512 67 528 537 57Tennessee 10,985 540 548 71 480 487 57 508 519 53Texas 32,423 530 540 73 490 493 63 510 523 56Utah 5,675 560 568 79 500 502 67 530 539 61Vermont 646 560 570 84 500 510 73 522 538 65Virginia 14,454 530 545 74 480 485 61 506 518 56Washington 11,980 550 568 82 500 506 70 532 543 64West Virginia 4,493 540 546 69 480 487 57 504 516 52Wisconsin 7,925 550 561 81 500 502 69 524 534 60Wyoming 1,455 560 571 78 510 513 67 536 545 60

U.s. subtotal 448,131 540 550 75 490 496 64 516 527 57

APPENDIX R2standard score statistics for All Ged® Test passers in science Test, Mathematics Test, and Test Battery: 2009

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Guam 140 530 536 60 480 484 53 496 513 54Marshall islands 6 460 528 139 435 468 99 467 494 71northern Mariana islands 10 525 543 116 490 493 73 518 535 77palau 13 470 488 47 440 472 64 486 491 48puerto Rico NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NAVirgin islands 90 530 533 68 460 476 58 496 509 53

insular Areas subtotal 265 530 532 67 470 480 57 496 511 55

Alberta 1,562 600 603 75 540 558 84 580 585 60British columbia 1,021 600 605 79 530 555 83 594 596 65Manitoba 170 590 606 78 540 569 94 588 591 61new Brunswick 771 550 560 72 510 528 69 540 549 53newfoundland 122 560 587 72 515 537 82 558 568 60northwest Territories 11 600 607 65 570 615 120 614 620 61nova scotia 529 560 584 75 510 534 78 548 562 59nunavut 9 660 629 95 520 549 78 578 587 82Ontario 3,818 580 590 75 530 552 81 572 578 60prince edward island 231 550 570 68 510 529 68 548 557 55Quebec 125 540 553 61 520 529 55 560 564 45saskatchewan 715 560 575 69 520 536 74 552 562 57Yukon Territory 19 600 622 65 550 566 64 604 607 49

canada subtotal 9,103 580 589 76 530 548 80 570 576 61

dAnTes 5,095 570 586 74 530 537 70 548 553 54Federal Bureau of prisons 5,764 510 521 65 460 472 51 490 504 48international 1,318 540 548 77 530 535 78 508 525 61Michigan prisons 1,784 510 519 67 450 465 52 482 497 48VA Hospitals – – – – – – – – – –inter-Regional contracts subtotal 13,961 540 547 76 490 501 70 512 523 57

program Total 471,460 540 551 75 490 497 65 516 527 58

Source: 2009 GED Testing Service® data.

NA = Not available.

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* = Not reported due to small numbers.

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Guam 64.2 71.4 69.7 67.9 42.9 30.8 57.1 * *Marshall islands 13.3 12.5 7.1 40.0 * * * * *northern Mariana islands 52.6 * 62.5 * * * * * *palau 46.4 * 52.9 * 40.0 * * * *puerto Rico 35.1 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NAVirgin islands 43.1 53.1 50.0 33.3 25.0 21.1 40.0 * *insular Areas subtotal 36.6 55.7 51.2 47.5 39.5 22.7 48.0 0.0 *Alberta 73.5 70.8 73.3 76.2 77.0 71.7 71.2 68.3 54.5British columbia 73.3 79.1 74.4 77.0 79.9 77.1 76.4 81.5 83.3Manitoba 70.8 * 76.5 72.7 79.3 75.9 57.4 57.9 *new Brunswick 50.8 70.0 55.6 53.3 49.4 50.4 41.4 42.9 33.3newfoundland and Labrador 61.3 * 74.7 57.1 66.7 56.7 53.1 8.3 *

northwest Territories 61.1 * 45.5 * * * * * *nova scotia 50.4 * 58.1 55.0 47.6 41.5 41.6 45.2 33.3nunavut 17.3 * 23.1 27.3 0.0 14.3 12.5 * *Ontario 72.8 84.3 74.6 70.5 74.8 71.0 70.8 70.3 64.7prince edward island 59.5 48.0 59.6 55.1 58.6 50.0 64.6 67.3 66.7Quebec 53.6 48.4 52.1 77.4 53.8 44.4 40.0 57.1 *saskatchewan 57.1 74.4 59.0 58.5 53.2 38.9 57.0 54.8 75.0Yukon Territory 65.5 * 88.9 80.0 60.0 * * * *canada subtotal 66.3 72.7 68.5 67.5 68.0 63.3 63.1 62.6 60.0

dAnTes 95.5 96.1 95.6 94.8 95.9 88.2 80.0 * *Federal Bureau of prisons 64.9 62.5 77.6 69.0 64.4 60.4 56.6 55.2 57.5international 59.9 66.3 50.1 60.0 55.9 69.2 44.4 35.7 0.0Michigan prisons 52.6 74.9 61.7 52.6 48.9 42.7 39.6 36.6 60.0VA Hospitals 0.0 – – – – – – – –inter-Regional contracts subtotal 70.5 82.0 80.6 69.2 63.9 58.1 52.5 49.6 55.3

program Total 69.2 77.5 70.0 68.4 64.8 61.1 55.6 54.0 46.3

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U.s. subtotal 69.4 72.3 65.8

American samoa 13.3 25.0 5.6Federated states of Micronesia 50.0 * *Guam 64.2 62.3 66.7Marshall islands 13.3 11.5 15.8northern Mariana islands 52.6 38.5 83.3palau 46.4 42.9 46.2puerto Rico 35.1 33.0 38.1Virgin islands 43.1 45.9 40.8

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canada subtotal 66.3 70.7 60.3

dAnTes 95.5 96.4 89.8Federal Bureau of prisons 64.9 64.2 69.1international 59.9 53.1 60.0Michigan prisons 52.6 52.5 53.2VA Hospitals 0.0 – –

inter-Regional contracts subtotal 70.5 70.5 71.0

program Total 69.2 71.9 65.6

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Alabama 57.3 59.9 59.5 57.7 40.1 68.8 67.4Alaska 87.0 89.9 81.7 94.1 80.6 96.8 90.6Arizona 70.8 65.5 52.7 64.2 58.8 57.2 82.3Arkansas 82.8 82.2 87.8 78.8 64.7 95.5 87.7california 69.4 65.8 64.4 69.3 56.9 74.2 82.0colorado 81.8 76.1 77.7 87.7 69.8 70.2 88.2connecticut 62.7 50.3 70.0 52.2 48.9 71.4 79.2delaware 91.4 83.8 * 100.0 84.3 * 96.5district of columbia 53.5 59.1 * 80.0 50.5 * 89.2Florida 69.4 67.7 68.4 62.5 49.8 58.7 79.1Georgia 66.0 66.6 75.0 68.0 51.3 76.3 78.4Hawaii 75.2 76.2 83.3 75.3 75.0 67.8 87.5idaho 85.0 79.3 74.5 80.8 82.4 88.2 87.4illinois 59.2 56.5 68.4 54.7 45.4 70.0 70.9indiana 73.4 70.6 73.9 61.3 57.6 73.7 78.0iowa 98.1 97.3 98.7 100.0 94.3 * 98.9Kansas 91.9 87.8 95.2 95.6 82.0 85.7 94.3Kentucky 78.4 76.9 81.8 73.5 65.6 65.4 81.2Louisiana 69.5 70.9 70.5 69.3 54.5 75.0 80.3Maine 86.5 82.5 72.3 68.0 73.6 * 88.1Maryland 60.1 61.5 69.0 61.3 46.5 58.3 75.8Massachusetts 64.7 53.5 69.6 57.6 50.5 61.1 77.3Michigan 69.9 72.5 77.3 55.8 46.5 88.0 81.5Minnesota 81.9 78.6 73.4 75.8 66.3 69.0 89.1Mississippi 55.8 61.6 32.7 60.0 37.6 76.5 72.5Missouri 74.4 73.8 74.5 73.1 54.6 59.4 79.8Montana 75.5 68.2 50.2 69.0 61.0 58.8 83.7nebraska 81.4 71.2 80.7 78.9 67.1 71.4 87.7nevada 68.7 60.8 65.2 63.2 58.9 65.9 78.4new Hampshire 82.0 61.1 66.7 52.6 56.5 83.3 86.0new Jersey 62.4 57.5 56.5 64.9 52.0 59.1 81.2new Mexico 68.0 64.4 58.9 70.8 60.8 51.6 81.4new York 53.8 48.2 54.3 53.1 41.2 43.1 72.4north carolina 85.2 84.3 86.0 87.2 73.0 86.2 91.2north dakota 83.1 72.3 74.3 100.0 63.2 * 88.5Ohio 76.0 70.5 73.0 72.6 60.5 81.1 82.3Oklahoma 70.1 61.7 65.7 62.3 56.4 56.7 76.1Oregon 83.7 76.8 80.8 79.7 72.5 78.3 87.2pennsylvania 64.8 61.7 66.5 56.0 50.1 59.5 74.0Rhode island 76.5 66.8 61.4 70.0 60.8 55.6 85.7south carolina 69.0 71.5 81.7 81.1 54.1 85.7 78.5south dakota 81.5 78.0 69.4 92.3 70.4 28.6 88.1Tennessee 71.4 73.8 70.8 66.0 53.3 69.6 77.9Texas 67.0 62.8 71.1 58.3 56.2 66.4 79.4Utah 81.0 70.9 62.7 73.8 70.1 68.8 84.9Vermont 81.3 77.8 80.0 37.5 70.4 * 84.0Virginia 68.0 64.6 75.4 67.6 55.0 80.6 79.7Washington 79.8 70.9 74.6 77.0 64.3 73.3 85.6West Virginia 74.4 NA NA NA NA NA NAWisconsin 79.0 74.6 82.0 84.4 58.2 85.0 89.7Wyoming 90.9 85.0 89.0 72.7 82.2 100.0 92.4

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American samoa 13.3 * * * * 12.5 *Federated states of Micronesia 50.0 * * * * * *Guam 64.2 * * 66.0 * 62.6 87.5Marshall islands 13.3 * * * * 11.6 *northern Mariana islands 52.6 * * * * 46.7 *palau 46.4 * * * * 50.0 *puerto Rico 35.1 NA NA NA NA NA NAVirgin islands 43.1 26.7 * * 44.2 * 69.2

insular Areas subtotal 36.6 31.6 * 63.5 44.5 47.4 72.0

dAnTes 95.5 95.5 100.0 92.3 89.7 91.9 96.7Federal Bureau of prisons 64.9 62.6 63.7 64.2 56.3 63.3 76.6international 59.9 NA NA NA NA NA NAMichigan prisons 52.6 47.1 47.6 58.8 45.0 33.3 64.1VA Hospitals 0.0 – – – – – –

inter-Regional contracts subtotal 70.5 71.1 73.1 79.5 56.1 79.6 87.7

program Total 69.2 63.8 68.0 66.0 52.2 67.8 80.6

Source: 2009 GED Testing Service® data.

NA = Not available.

– = Not applicable or not possible to calculate.

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1949 39,016 NA 77.7 NA NA NA1950 36,853 NA 77.7 NA NA NA1951 25,584 NA 77.7 NA NA NA1952 29,733 NA 77.7 NA NA NA1953 32,533 NA 77.7 NA NA 39.01954 42,141 NA 80.0 NA NA NA1955 44,840 NA 79.0 NA NA 46.01956 52,552 NA 77.0 NA NA 43.01957 52,847 NA 76.0 NA NA 35.01958 58,723 NA 78.0 27.0 10.0 38.01959 56,496 NA 76.0 28.0 10.0 36.01960 61,093 NA 77.0 29.0 10.0 31.01961 68,080 NA 74.0 29.0 10.0 34.01962 75,428 NA 75.0 29.0 10.0 34.01963 88,242 NA 71.0 29.0 10.0 33.01964 116,875 NA 73.0 29.0 10.0 32.51965 143,974 NA 72.0 29.0 9.7 38.01966 185,778 NA 71.7 29.3 9.8 35.01967 218,386 NA 70.0 29.5 9.7 36.01968 265,499 NA 69.4 29.5 9.7 39.91969 293,451 NA 71.7 29.4 9.7 37.31970 331,534 NA 70.8 29.1 9.7 40.11971 387,733 NA 68.7 28.0 9.8 41.21972 430,346 NA 67.4 27.4 9.8 44.31973 440,216 NA 68.2 25.1 9.8 42.01974 561,203 430,253 68.9 27.2 10.7 40.01975 687,426 541,914 70.2 25.1 10.0 42.11976 696,623 539,729 67.8 25.4 10.0 39.41977 715,116 517,847 69.7 25.0 10.0 37.8

1978 series Ged Test

1978 674,724 495,728 NA 25.9 9.9 35.61979 773,996 608,229 68.4 25.3 10.0 40.81980 816,176 741,601 70.8 25.1 10.0 36.61981 804,813 732,229 72.1 25.1 9.9 46.11982 792,132 724,971 73.9 25.1 9.9 48.41983 772,080 711,946 73.1 25.4 9.8 48.61984 707,076 641,697 73.0 25.8 9.8 49.11985 711,392 647,496 72.4 25.8 9.8 51.31986 739,683 674,430 72.6 26.5 9.9 54.81987 758,367 690,509 74.1 26.7 9.9 49.7

APPENDIX VTrends in Ged® Testing, All candidates: 1949–2009

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1988 734,087 651,247 72.3 26.7 9.9 47.51989 682,728 589,002 68.4 26.2 10.0 53.61990 763,618 662,789 69.9 26.5 9.9 56.51991 806,038 706,182 71.5 26.4 9.9 58.61992 790,565 688,582 71.4 26.6 9.9 61.41993 790,165 685,304 71.4 26.0 9.9 61.71994 822,537 712,421 73.0 25.6 9.9 65.61995 829,904 723,899 72.0 25.3 9.9 63.71996 867,802 758,570 71.7 25.0 9.9 64.41997 827,105 722,461 68.6 24.7 9.9 65.41998 822,181 718,464 70.9 24.6 9.9 67.61999 860,079 751,637 70.2 24.6 9.9 65.02000 860,684 747,617 69.5 24.7 9.9 66.22001 1,069,899 979,829 69.8 25.2 9.9 65.5

2002 series Ged Test

2002 603,019 510,451 70.6 25.2 10.1 63.32003 703,512 596,283 69.1 25.0 10.0 62.62004 704,365 604,927 70.2 25.0 10.0 61.62005 715,365 619,846 71.6 25.2 10.0 61.22006 714,436 616,404 68.0 25.2 10.0 58.62007 728,930 635,182 71.1 25.2 10.0 58.72008 776,728 679,861 72.6 25.3 10.1 59.62009 788,314 683,519 69.2 25.8 10.0 62.4

Source: 2009 GED Testing Service® data.

NA = Not available.1. Number of candidates completing the battery of tests was not collected before 1974.

Note: This table presents selected statistics on GED Test candidates previously reported in prior annual statistical reports. If the statis-tics reported for comparison purpose in a later reporting year were different from what was reported previously, the latest statistics are used for this table.

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Ged Test completion Rate (%) 83.8 84.0 85.6 86.3 85.8 86.7 87.1 86.3 99.7 99.6 89.8 95.9 97.9 97.6 98.8 98.4 91.5 97.5 97.1 96.1 96.7 97.0 97.0 97.2 83.2 84.3 85.1 90.2 91.7 93.0 93.6 91.7 84.6 84.8 85.9 86.6 86.3 87.1 87.5 86.7

Mean Age (Years) 25.0 24.7 24.7 24.9 24.9 25.0 25.1 25.6 29.1 24.9 25.1 24.3 25.2 25.4 24.4 24.6 32.3 30.7 30.5 30.7 30.8 31.0 31.2 31.6 32.3 31.6 31.2 30.5 29.9 29.8 28.7 28.6 25.2 25.0 25.0 25.2 25.2 25.2 25.3 25.816- to 18-year-olds (%) 32.3 30.6 30.3 30.0 30.9 31.0 30.2 27.1 22.2 21.9 21.3 28.2 22.3 20.8 22.8 23.8 1.2 1.2 1.4 1.8 2.4 3.0 3.6 3.1 1.8 2.7 3.5 7.8 9.6 9.4 15.8 15.8 31.3 29.6 29.3 29.1 29.8 29.9 29.3 26.319- to 24-year-olds (%) 36.4 37.5 37.5 36.5 35.2 34.5 34.8 35.8 39.1 44.0 41.8 40.8 41.2 42.1 41.9 44.4 37.7 39.5 40.3 39.6 38.1 37.7 36.5 35.8 25.8 26.4 26.2 26.4 28.0 28.4 29.0 29.7 36.4 37.3 37.3 36.3 35.2 34.5 34.7 35.6

Male (%) 56.1 55.1 55.1 55.3 55.9 56.8 57.1 57.0 47.4 49.8 56.4 56.3 53.2 54.1 57.0 58.4 56.1 57.0 55.5 55.6 57.0 57.4 58.9 60.8 90.8 89.2 88.1 87.8 88.6 88.9 88.8 86.4 56.6 55.7 55.8 56.0 56.6 57.6 57.9 57.8Female (%) 43.9 44.9 44.9 44.7 44.1 43.2 42.9 43.0 52.6 50.2 43.6 43.7 46.8 45.9 43.0 41.6 43.9 43.0 44.5 44.4 43.0 42.6 41.1 39.2 9.2 10.8 11.9 12.2 11.4 11.1 11.2 13.6 43.4 44.3 44.2 44.0 43.4 42.4 42.1 42.2

Hispanic Origin (%) NA 22.6 18.1 18.7 18.8 19.0 19.3 20.1 NA 4.7 4.7 87.2* 2.4 3.8 4.5 3.3 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 24.2 19.8 19.8 18.5 14.5 14.6 16.4 NA 22.7 18.2 19.2 18.8 18.9 19.2 20.1American indian/Alaska native (%) NA 2.6 2.7 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5 NA 0.6 0.3 0.0 0.3 0.4 0.2 0.0 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 2.4 2.4 2.4 2.1 2.2 1.8 1.9 NA 2.6 2.7 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5Asian (%) NA 1.7 1.7 1.7 1.7 1.7 1.8 1.8 NA 7.3 12.0 1.0 6.3 9.3 9.3 9.7 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 1.1 1.0 1.0 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1 NA 1.7 1.7 1.7 1.7 1.7 1.8 1.8African American (%) NA 20.3 21.5 23.0 22.8 23.3 23.7 24.4 NA 33.8 19.9 3.5 17.7 18.1 23.8 28.5 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 43.2 44.9 45.9 43.7 43.9 43.0 40.5 NA 20.6 22.0 23.4 23.2 23.7 24.1 24.7pacific islander/Hawaiian (%) NA 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.7 0.7 NA 48.6 59.4 7.6 68.8 62.3 56.4 53.9 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.5 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.4 0.7 NA 0.6 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7White (%) NA 52.3 55.3 53.5 53.5 52.8 52.0 50.5 NA 4.9 3.6 0.8 4.5 6.0 5.8 4.4 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 28.5 31.5 30.3 34.1 37.7 39.1 39.4 NA 51.7 54.7 52.6 53.1 52.5 51.7 50.2

Mean Highest Grade completed 10.1 10.0 10.0 10.0 10.0 10.0 10.1 10.0 10.3 10.2 10.3 9.3 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.1 9.6 9.6 NA NA NA NA NA NA 9.5 9.5 9.8 9.7 9.8 9.9 9.9 10.0 10.1 10.0 10.0 10.0 10.0 10.0 10.1 10.1Tested Within Two Years Out of school (%) NA NA NA 39.9 40.9 41.6 41.3 38.5 NA NA NA 38.1 35.1 37.9 36.8 38.8 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 9.3 12.5 17.6 23.4 26.2 NA NA NA 39.1 40.3 40.9 40.8 38.2Mean Years Out of school NA NA NA 7.4 7.4 7.5 7.6 8.0 NA NA NA 6.5 7.6 7.7 6.9 6.9 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 14.0 13.3 12.3 11.5 11.0 NA NA NA 7.6 7.5 7.6 7.7 8.1

Tested for education Reasons (%) NA NA NA NA 58.9 59.0 60.0 62.8 NA NA NA NA 56.1 57.1 55.9 60.1 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 43.3 44.2 44.8 47.1 63.3 62.6 61.6 61.2 58.6 58.7 59.6 62.4Tested for employment Reasons (%) NA NA NA NA 48.3 49.4 50.1 50.4 NA NA NA NA 49.6 51.9 51.3 52.8 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 41.3 41.5 42.5 40.2 NA NA NA NA 48.1 49.2 49.9 50.1

Language Arts, Writing Mean score NA 479 474 478 477 486 488 479 NA NA NA 431 447 469 431 452 NA 519 528 535 526 536 529 532 NA NA NA 459 454 466 472 468 NA 481 474 479 478 487 488 480social studies Mean score NA 508 521 506 506 516 518 505 NA NA NA 410 459 480 424 461 NA 535 528 540 533 530 543 530 NA NA NA 502 502 514 515 508 NA 508 521 506 506 516 518 506Language Arts, Reading Mean score NA 523 515 526 525 540 541 526 NA NA NA 422 459 491 419 473 NA 559 560 585 571 586 589 586 NA NA NA 523 518 536 532 524 NA 524 516 526 525 541 541 527science Mean score NA 536 544 509 521 517 522 524 NA NA NA 431 479 478 435 487 NA 587 570 561 564 557 572 558 NA NA NA 499 512 509 515 524 NA 537 545 509 522 517 522 525Mathematics Mean score NA 463 467 469 468 473 470 468 NA NA NA 371 428 435 391 435 NA 486 501 505 501 505 500 508 NA NA NA 457 456 461 469 474 NA 463 468 469 469 473 470 469

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Ged Test pass Rate (%) 70.6 70.1 71.2 72.1 68.7 71.5 73.1 69.4 76.3 48.4 20.6 24.1 25.7 38.2 34.1 36.6 64.8 61.0 64.3 64.0 66.1 66.1 63.2 66.3 67.6 65.3 72.3 71.9 63.5 69.5 73.3 70.5 70.6 69.1 70.2 71.6 68.0 71.1 72.6 69.2

Mean Age (Years) 23.4 23.8 23.7 24.1 23.8 23.9 24.2 24.5 26.8 24.9 24.4 24.8 24.8 23.6 23.4 23.2 31.8 29.9 30.5 30.1 30.4 30.4 30.4 31.3 31.4 31.6 30.5 30.1 29.2 28.7 27.4 27.0 24.1 25.0 24.0 24.3 24.1 24.2 24.4 24.716- to 18-year-olds (%) 37.6 35.3 34.8 33.7 35.2 35.3 34.0 31.0 30.7 28.6 26.8 25.1 28.7 32.1 28.5 27.5 1.2 1.3 1.6 1.9 2.8 3.7 4.3 3.3 2.0 3.0 3.4 7.4 9.4 10.8 17.7 18.0 36.3 34.2 33.6 32.5 33.9 34.0 33.0 30.119- to 24-year-olds (%) 36.1 37.3 37.6 36.5 35.8 35.0 35.1 36.2 33.3 39.4 41.0 39.2 35.6 41.1 41.6 46.8 38.5 42.5 42.0 41.9 39.8 39.5 39.0 36.6 30.6 30.6 28.3 28.0 29.9 32.1 32.6 34.6 36.0 37.3 37.5 36.4 35.7 35.1 35.1 36.1

Male (%) 58.2 57.8 57.5 57.6 58.5 59.7 59.5 59.5 52.0 48.6 52.9 55.4 58.7 57.4 55.9 55.3 58.5 60.7 59.2 57.7 59.8 61.4 62.3 64.7 91.0 88.9 88.1 88.0 88.4 88.9 88.6 86.6 58.6 58.4 58.2 58.3 59.2 60.5 60.4 60.3Female (%) 41.8 42.2 42.5 42.4 41.5 40.3 40.5 40.5 48.0 51.4 47.1 44.6 41.3 42.6 44.1 44.7 41.5 39.3 40.8 42.3 40.2 38.6 37.7 35.3 9.0 11.1 11.9 12.0 11.6 11.1 11.4 13.4 41.4 41.6 41.8 41.7 40.8 39.5 39.6 39.7

Hispanic Origin (%) NA 19.3 15.3 16.0 16.0 16.3 17.0 17.9 NA 4.9 4.9 69.0* 2.7 5.7 5.5 2.3 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 23.5 20.2 19.8 19.3 14.3 14.5 15.3 NA 19.5 15.4 16.2 16.0 16.3 16.9 17.8American indian/Alaska native (%) NA 2.2 2.4 2.2 2.2 2.2 2.1 2.1 NA 1.0 0.7 0.0 0.8 0.8 0.3 0.0 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 2.5 2.4 2.5 2.2 2.2 1.8 1.9 NA 2.2 2.4 2.2 2.2 2.2 2.1 2.1Asian (%) NA 1.7 1.6 1.6 1.7 1.7 1.8 1.7 NA 10.2 16.9 3.5 6.2 14.1 10.7 12.7 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 1.3 1.1 1.0 1.1 1.1 1.2 1.3 NA 1.7 1.6 1.6 1.7 1.7 1.8 1.7African American (%) NA 14.6 15.8 17.5 16.7 17.5 18.3 18.2 NA 47.1 22.5 9.6 21.8 19.4 22.9 29.6 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 36.2 38.6 40.0 36.4 36.2 34.8 31.4 NA 14.9 16.4 18.0 17.2 17.9 18.7 18.5pacific islander/Hawaiian (%) NA 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.7 0.6 NA 31.1 50.2 15.4 59.5 47.9 51.4 48.5 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.4 0.8 NA 0.7 0.7 0.6 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7White (%) NA 61.6 64.2 62.1 62.8 61.6 60.2 59.5 NA 5.8 4.9 2.5 8.9 12.2 9.2 6.9 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 35.9 37.2 36.2 40.5 45.5 47.3 49.3 NA 61.0 63.5 61.4 62.3 61.2 59.9 59.2

Mean Highest Grade completed 10.2 10.1 10.1 10.1 10.1 10.1 10.1 10.1 10.7 10.3 10.4 9.6 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.1 9.7 9.7 NA NA NA NA NA NA 9.8 9.6 9.8 9.8 9.9 10.0 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.1 10.1 10.0 10.1 10.1 10.1 10.1Tested Within Two Years Out of school (%) 37.6 45.6 44.1 42.7 44.7 45.4 44.7 41.8 NA NA NA 36.0 41.6 48.6 42.8 43.2 11.0 12.4 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 9.8 14.4 20.9 28.2 30.3 NA NA NA 42.1 44.0 44.7 44.2 41.5Mean Years Out of school NA NA NA 6.9 6.5 6.6 6.8 7.2 NA NA NA 7.0 7.4 6.3 6.0 5.7 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 13.6 12.3 11.0 10.0 9.4 NA NA NA 6.9 6.7 6.7 6.9 7.3

Tested for education Reasons (%) 63.3 62.9 62.0 61.6 61.0 60.9 61.8 65.1 73.9 70.7 60.9 66.8 53.5 59.5 56.1 61.5 28.0 41.1 NA NA NA NA NA NA 48.7 51.4 44.3 44.6 44.0 43.9 44.7 45.7 62.7 62.6 61.6 61.2 60.6 60.4 61.2 64.5Tested for employment Reasons (%) 47.7 47.0 48.8 48.6 47.2 48.6 49.6 50.0 48.3 53.8 49.2 41.7 45.7 48.9 45.2 55.0 28.8 62.0 NA NA NA NA NA NA 32.1 34.5 38.9 40.0 39.5 39.7 40.9 37.0 46.8 47.0 48.5 48.4 47.0 48.3 49.3 49.6

Language Arts, Writing Mean score 501 512 507 496 498 504 505 500 NA NA NA 483 479 500 486 501 525 568 573 572 553 563 560 562 NA NA NA 471 469 480 486 488 NA NA 507 497 498 505 505 501social studies Mean score 542 537 551 532 535 538 540 531 NA NA NA 498 507 529 506 511 533 572 570 573 565 564 574 562 NA NA NA 523 524 531 532 530 NA NA 551 533 535 539 540 532Language Arts, Reading Mean score 544 554 546 555 556 565 565 555 NA NA NA 505 511 544 513 530 551 599 601 623 608 621 625 620 NA NA NA 545 541 554 552 520 NA NA 547 556 557 566 565 556science Mean score 566 569 578 534 550 542 544 550 NA NA NA 501 530 535 520 532 575 631 617 593 595 589 604 589 NA NA NA 519 534 528 533 547 NA NA 579 534 550 542 544 551Mathematics Mean score 503 497 501 496 498 501 495 496 NA NA NA 478 474 494 478 480 496 532 548 549 541 547 542 548 NA NA NA 478 482 485 492 501 NA NA 501 496 498 501 496 497Battery Mean score 531 534 537 522 527 530 530 527 NA NA NA 493 500 520 501 511 540 580 582 582 573 577 581 576 NA NA NA 507 510 516 519 523 NA NA 537 523 528 531 530 527

Source: 2009 GED Testing Service® data.

APPENDIX Wstatistics on Ged® Test candidates and passers, by Jurisdictional Group: 2002–09

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Ged Test completion Rate (%) 83.8 84.0 85.6 86.3 85.8 86.7 87.1 86.3 99.7 99.6 89.8 95.9 97.9 97.6 98.8 98.4 91.5 97.5 97.1 96.1 96.7 97.0 97.0 97.2 83.2 84.3 85.1 90.2 91.7 93.0 93.6 91.7 84.6 84.8 85.9 86.6 86.3 87.1 87.5 86.7

Mean Age (Years) 25.0 24.7 24.7 24.9 24.9 25.0 25.1 25.6 29.1 24.9 25.1 24.3 25.2 25.4 24.4 24.6 32.3 30.7 30.5 30.7 30.8 31.0 31.2 31.6 32.3 31.6 31.2 30.5 29.9 29.8 28.7 28.6 25.2 25.0 25.0 25.2 25.2 25.2 25.3 25.816- to 18-year-olds (%) 32.3 30.6 30.3 30.0 30.9 31.0 30.2 27.1 22.2 21.9 21.3 28.2 22.3 20.8 22.8 23.8 1.2 1.2 1.4 1.8 2.4 3.0 3.6 3.1 1.8 2.7 3.5 7.8 9.6 9.4 15.8 15.8 31.3 29.6 29.3 29.1 29.8 29.9 29.3 26.319- to 24-year-olds (%) 36.4 37.5 37.5 36.5 35.2 34.5 34.8 35.8 39.1 44.0 41.8 40.8 41.2 42.1 41.9 44.4 37.7 39.5 40.3 39.6 38.1 37.7 36.5 35.8 25.8 26.4 26.2 26.4 28.0 28.4 29.0 29.7 36.4 37.3 37.3 36.3 35.2 34.5 34.7 35.6

Male (%) 56.1 55.1 55.1 55.3 55.9 56.8 57.1 57.0 47.4 49.8 56.4 56.3 53.2 54.1 57.0 58.4 56.1 57.0 55.5 55.6 57.0 57.4 58.9 60.8 90.8 89.2 88.1 87.8 88.6 88.9 88.8 86.4 56.6 55.7 55.8 56.0 56.6 57.6 57.9 57.8Female (%) 43.9 44.9 44.9 44.7 44.1 43.2 42.9 43.0 52.6 50.2 43.6 43.7 46.8 45.9 43.0 41.6 43.9 43.0 44.5 44.4 43.0 42.6 41.1 39.2 9.2 10.8 11.9 12.2 11.4 11.1 11.2 13.6 43.4 44.3 44.2 44.0 43.4 42.4 42.1 42.2

Hispanic Origin (%) NA 22.6 18.1 18.7 18.8 19.0 19.3 20.1 NA 4.7 4.7 87.2* 2.4 3.8 4.5 3.3 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 24.2 19.8 19.8 18.5 14.5 14.6 16.4 NA 22.7 18.2 19.2 18.8 18.9 19.2 20.1American indian/Alaska native (%) NA 2.6 2.7 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5 NA 0.6 0.3 0.0 0.3 0.4 0.2 0.0 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 2.4 2.4 2.4 2.1 2.2 1.8 1.9 NA 2.6 2.7 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5Asian (%) NA 1.7 1.7 1.7 1.7 1.7 1.8 1.8 NA 7.3 12.0 1.0 6.3 9.3 9.3 9.7 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 1.1 1.0 1.0 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1 NA 1.7 1.7 1.7 1.7 1.7 1.8 1.8African American (%) NA 20.3 21.5 23.0 22.8 23.3 23.7 24.4 NA 33.8 19.9 3.5 17.7 18.1 23.8 28.5 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 43.2 44.9 45.9 43.7 43.9 43.0 40.5 NA 20.6 22.0 23.4 23.2 23.7 24.1 24.7pacific islander/Hawaiian (%) NA 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.7 0.7 NA 48.6 59.4 7.6 68.8 62.3 56.4 53.9 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.5 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.4 0.7 NA 0.6 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7White (%) NA 52.3 55.3 53.5 53.5 52.8 52.0 50.5 NA 4.9 3.6 0.8 4.5 6.0 5.8 4.4 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 28.5 31.5 30.3 34.1 37.7 39.1 39.4 NA 51.7 54.7 52.6 53.1 52.5 51.7 50.2

Mean Highest Grade completed 10.1 10.0 10.0 10.0 10.0 10.0 10.1 10.0 10.3 10.2 10.3 9.3 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.1 9.6 9.6 NA NA NA NA NA NA 9.5 9.5 9.8 9.7 9.8 9.9 9.9 10.0 10.1 10.0 10.0 10.0 10.0 10.0 10.1 10.1Tested Within Two Years Out of school (%) NA NA NA 39.9 40.9 41.6 41.3 38.5 NA NA NA 38.1 35.1 37.9 36.8 38.8 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 9.3 12.5 17.6 23.4 26.2 NA NA NA 39.1 40.3 40.9 40.8 38.2Mean Years Out of school NA NA NA 7.4 7.4 7.5 7.6 8.0 NA NA NA 6.5 7.6 7.7 6.9 6.9 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 14.0 13.3 12.3 11.5 11.0 NA NA NA 7.6 7.5 7.6 7.7 8.1

Tested for education Reasons (%) NA NA NA NA 58.9 59.0 60.0 62.8 NA NA NA NA 56.1 57.1 55.9 60.1 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 43.3 44.2 44.8 47.1 63.3 62.6 61.6 61.2 58.6 58.7 59.6 62.4Tested for employment Reasons (%) NA NA NA NA 48.3 49.4 50.1 50.4 NA NA NA NA 49.6 51.9 51.3 52.8 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 41.3 41.5 42.5 40.2 NA NA NA NA 48.1 49.2 49.9 50.1

Language Arts, Writing Mean score NA 479 474 478 477 486 488 479 NA NA NA 431 447 469 431 452 NA 519 528 535 526 536 529 532 NA NA NA 459 454 466 472 468 NA 481 474 479 478 487 488 480social studies Mean score NA 508 521 506 506 516 518 505 NA NA NA 410 459 480 424 461 NA 535 528 540 533 530 543 530 NA NA NA 502 502 514 515 508 NA 508 521 506 506 516 518 506Language Arts, Reading Mean score NA 523 515 526 525 540 541 526 NA NA NA 422 459 491 419 473 NA 559 560 585 571 586 589 586 NA NA NA 523 518 536 532 524 NA 524 516 526 525 541 541 527science Mean score NA 536 544 509 521 517 522 524 NA NA NA 431 479 478 435 487 NA 587 570 561 564 557 572 558 NA NA NA 499 512 509 515 524 NA 537 545 509 522 517 522 525Mathematics Mean score NA 463 467 469 468 473 470 468 NA NA NA 371 428 435 391 435 NA 486 501 505 501 505 500 508 NA NA NA 457 456 461 469 474 NA 463 468 469 469 473 470 469

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passers 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

Ged Test pass Rate (%) 70.6 70.1 71.2 72.1 68.7 71.5 73.1 69.4 76.3 48.4 20.6 24.1 25.7 38.2 34.1 36.6 64.8 61.0 64.3 64.0 66.1 66.1 63.2 66.3 67.6 65.3 72.3 71.9 63.5 69.5 73.3 70.5 70.6 69.1 70.2 71.6 68.0 71.1 72.6 69.2

Mean Age (Years) 23.4 23.8 23.7 24.1 23.8 23.9 24.2 24.5 26.8 24.9 24.4 24.8 24.8 23.6 23.4 23.2 31.8 29.9 30.5 30.1 30.4 30.4 30.4 31.3 31.4 31.6 30.5 30.1 29.2 28.7 27.4 27.0 24.1 25.0 24.0 24.3 24.1 24.2 24.4 24.716- to 18-year-olds (%) 37.6 35.3 34.8 33.7 35.2 35.3 34.0 31.0 30.7 28.6 26.8 25.1 28.7 32.1 28.5 27.5 1.2 1.3 1.6 1.9 2.8 3.7 4.3 3.3 2.0 3.0 3.4 7.4 9.4 10.8 17.7 18.0 36.3 34.2 33.6 32.5 33.9 34.0 33.0 30.119- to 24-year-olds (%) 36.1 37.3 37.6 36.5 35.8 35.0 35.1 36.2 33.3 39.4 41.0 39.2 35.6 41.1 41.6 46.8 38.5 42.5 42.0 41.9 39.8 39.5 39.0 36.6 30.6 30.6 28.3 28.0 29.9 32.1 32.6 34.6 36.0 37.3 37.5 36.4 35.7 35.1 35.1 36.1

Male (%) 58.2 57.8 57.5 57.6 58.5 59.7 59.5 59.5 52.0 48.6 52.9 55.4 58.7 57.4 55.9 55.3 58.5 60.7 59.2 57.7 59.8 61.4 62.3 64.7 91.0 88.9 88.1 88.0 88.4 88.9 88.6 86.6 58.6 58.4 58.2 58.3 59.2 60.5 60.4 60.3Female (%) 41.8 42.2 42.5 42.4 41.5 40.3 40.5 40.5 48.0 51.4 47.1 44.6 41.3 42.6 44.1 44.7 41.5 39.3 40.8 42.3 40.2 38.6 37.7 35.3 9.0 11.1 11.9 12.0 11.6 11.1 11.4 13.4 41.4 41.6 41.8 41.7 40.8 39.5 39.6 39.7

Hispanic Origin (%) NA 19.3 15.3 16.0 16.0 16.3 17.0 17.9 NA 4.9 4.9 69.0* 2.7 5.7 5.5 2.3 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 23.5 20.2 19.8 19.3 14.3 14.5 15.3 NA 19.5 15.4 16.2 16.0 16.3 16.9 17.8American indian/Alaska native (%) NA 2.2 2.4 2.2 2.2 2.2 2.1 2.1 NA 1.0 0.7 0.0 0.8 0.8 0.3 0.0 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 2.5 2.4 2.5 2.2 2.2 1.8 1.9 NA 2.2 2.4 2.2 2.2 2.2 2.1 2.1Asian (%) NA 1.7 1.6 1.6 1.7 1.7 1.8 1.7 NA 10.2 16.9 3.5 6.2 14.1 10.7 12.7 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 1.3 1.1 1.0 1.1 1.1 1.2 1.3 NA 1.7 1.6 1.6 1.7 1.7 1.8 1.7African American (%) NA 14.6 15.8 17.5 16.7 17.5 18.3 18.2 NA 47.1 22.5 9.6 21.8 19.4 22.9 29.6 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 36.2 38.6 40.0 36.4 36.2 34.8 31.4 NA 14.9 16.4 18.0 17.2 17.9 18.7 18.5pacific islander/Hawaiian (%) NA 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.7 0.6 NA 31.1 50.2 15.4 59.5 47.9 51.4 48.5 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.4 0.8 NA 0.7 0.7 0.6 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7White (%) NA 61.6 64.2 62.1 62.8 61.6 60.2 59.5 NA 5.8 4.9 2.5 8.9 12.2 9.2 6.9 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 35.9 37.2 36.2 40.5 45.5 47.3 49.3 NA 61.0 63.5 61.4 62.3 61.2 59.9 59.2

Mean Highest Grade completed 10.2 10.1 10.1 10.1 10.1 10.1 10.1 10.1 10.7 10.3 10.4 9.6 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.1 9.7 9.7 NA NA NA NA NA NA 9.8 9.6 9.8 9.8 9.9 10.0 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.1 10.1 10.0 10.1 10.1 10.1 10.1Tested Within Two Years Out of school (%) 37.6 45.6 44.1 42.7 44.7 45.4 44.7 41.8 NA NA NA 36.0 41.6 48.6 42.8 43.2 11.0 12.4 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 9.8 14.4 20.9 28.2 30.3 NA NA NA 42.1 44.0 44.7 44.2 41.5Mean Years Out of school NA NA NA 6.9 6.5 6.6 6.8 7.2 NA NA NA 7.0 7.4 6.3 6.0 5.7 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 13.6 12.3 11.0 10.0 9.4 NA NA NA 6.9 6.7 6.7 6.9 7.3

Tested for education Reasons (%) 63.3 62.9 62.0 61.6 61.0 60.9 61.8 65.1 73.9 70.7 60.9 66.8 53.5 59.5 56.1 61.5 28.0 41.1 NA NA NA NA NA NA 48.7 51.4 44.3 44.6 44.0 43.9 44.7 45.7 62.7 62.6 61.6 61.2 60.6 60.4 61.2 64.5Tested for employment Reasons (%) 47.7 47.0 48.8 48.6 47.2 48.6 49.6 50.0 48.3 53.8 49.2 41.7 45.7 48.9 45.2 55.0 28.8 62.0 NA NA NA NA NA NA 32.1 34.5 38.9 40.0 39.5 39.7 40.9 37.0 46.8 47.0 48.5 48.4 47.0 48.3 49.3 49.6

Language Arts, Writing Mean score 501 512 507 496 498 504 505 500 NA NA NA 483 479 500 486 501 525 568 573 572 553 563 560 562 NA NA NA 471 469 480 486 488 NA NA 507 497 498 505 505 501social studies Mean score 542 537 551 532 535 538 540 531 NA NA NA 498 507 529 506 511 533 572 570 573 565 564 574 562 NA NA NA 523 524 531 532 530 NA NA 551 533 535 539 540 532Language Arts, Reading Mean score 544 554 546 555 556 565 565 555 NA NA NA 505 511 544 513 530 551 599 601 623 608 621 625 620 NA NA NA 545 541 554 552 520 NA NA 547 556 557 566 565 556science Mean score 566 569 578 534 550 542 544 550 NA NA NA 501 530 535 520 532 575 631 617 593 595 589 604 589 NA NA NA 519 534 528 533 547 NA NA 579 534 550 542 544 551Mathematics Mean score 503 497 501 496 498 501 495 496 NA NA NA 478 474 494 478 480 496 532 548 549 541 547 542 548 NA NA NA 478 482 485 492 501 NA NA 501 496 498 501 496 497Battery Mean score 531 534 537 522 527 530 530 527 NA NA NA 493 500 520 501 511 540 580 582 582 573 577 581 576 NA NA NA 507 510 516 519 523 NA NA 537 523 528 531 530 527

Source: 2009 GED Testing Service® data.

NA = Not available.

Note: These tables present selected statistics on GED Test candidates and passers previously reported in prior annual statistical reports. If the statistics reported for comparison purpose in a later reporting year were different from what was reported previously, the latest statistics are used for this table.

* The higher percentage of passers with Hispanic origin from the insular areas in 2005 is due to the inclusion of Puerto Rico (100 percent of 2005 passers in Puerto Rico were of Hispanic origin). In other years, data from Puerto Rico are not included.

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number of Ged credentials issued¹ number of Ged Test passers

1942 series (1943–77)

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Alabama 71,313 98,536 109,797 54,242Alaska 16,444 22,934 24,578 13,174Arizona 32,783 74,907 134,375 83,829Arkansas 22,799 64,034 103,619 51,002california 35,783 92,111 466,628 225,862colorado 36,104 74,473 112,234 69,974connecticut 25,164 43,583 64,975 23,383delaware 4,908 9,109 12,453 4,485district of columbia 12,715 10,183 9,854 4,002Florida 78,464 283,713 463,198 237,769Georgia 54,105 124,549 244,430 141,714Hawaii 9,157 15,520 19,648 10,655idaho 4,351 10,879 11,204 25,585illinois 69,335 178,896 214,527 116,609indiana 4,090 87,758 173,195 80,708iowa 24,310 52,913 74,054 29,407Kansas 42,559 69,923 83,677 29,480Kentucky 53,726 123,838 168,672 71,948Louisiana 57,111 105,618 109,318 57,452Maine 14,165 26,868 45,362 18,742Maryland 40,451 79,174 83,753 41,715Massachusetts 38,124 101,496 132,764 57,210Michigan 62,677 132,314 202,884 82,035Minnesota 31,950 63,634 91,696 47,834Mississippi 32,399 76,093 87,968 53,179Missouri 72,075 62,193 129,060 69,500Montana 13,885 20,781 28,542 16,209nebraska 10,590 27,149 32,988 16,753nevada 7,838 21,019 50,151 31,965new Hampshire 9,189 19,035 27,563 12,154new Jersey 83,391 128,636 121,048 57,615new Mexico 29,943 48,659 68,107 34,629new York 226,058 414,955 504,186 225,141north carolina 68,458 151,707 197,397 95,474north dakota 5,920 11,777 12,908 7,561Ohio 38,595 125,877 252,135 125,374Oklahoma 31,489 64,954 97,449 52,944Oregon 32,038 78,148 114,071 61,548pennsylvania 86,887 195,023 248,893 107,971Rhode island 15,208 27,742 33,082 9,658south carolina 17,308 48,291 77,635 44,094south dakota 9,594 15,398 17,802 10,001Tennessee 42,138 132,180 176,425 86,994Texas 222,442 427,882 668,216 259,810Utah 1,353 7,272 53,093 39,565Vermont 5,392 14,307 16,669 5,358Virginia 50,912 105,176 142,366 101,739Washington 38,868 95,355 163,178 91,956West Virginia 28,289 58,153 57,814 28,351Wisconsin 28,506 89,948 87,897 56,728Wyoming 6,513 14,633 17,061 10,193

U.s. subtotal 2,057,866 4,848,616 6,792,917 3,291,280

APPENDIX Xnumber of Ged® credentials issued, by series Ged Test (1943–2001), and number of Ged Test passers, by 2002 series Ged Test (2002–09)

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1942 series (1943–77)

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American samoa 310 199 186 76Federated states of Micronesia2 NA 201 577 12Guam 1,098 1,246 1,979 1,098Marshall islands2 NA NA 134 22northern Mariana islands NA NA 148 122palau2 NA NA 119 97puerto Rico* 7,004 91,886 138,691 36,531Virgin islands 830 1,411 1,812 777

insular Areas subtotal 10,812 94,943 143,646 38,735

Alberta3 NA 14,248 28,666 10,953British columbia 12,992 36,046 40,534 7,524Manitoba 14,204 14,252 13,265 2,093new Brunswick 1,108 11,269 16,167 5,298newfoundland and Labrador 2,866 7,544 6,260 782northwest Territory 212 957 1,068 22nova scotia 7,784 18,387 25,379 4,723nunavut4 NA NA NA 90Ontario5 NA NA 12,208 25,195prince edward isld. 1,721 2,405 3,256 1,673Quebec6 NA NA NA 297saskatchewan 10,824 23,850 22,607 5,916Yukon Territory 50 698 677 119

canada subtotal 51,761 129,656 170,087 64,685

dAnTes NA NA NA 17,616Federal Bureau of prisons NA NA NA 42,196international NA NA NA 8,435Michigan prisons NA NA NA 15,422VA Hospitals NA NA NA 8

inter-Regional contracts subtotal nA nA nA 83,677

program Total 2,118,869 5,073,215 7,106,650 3,478,377

Source: 2009 GED Testing Service® data.

NA = Not available.1. Number of credentials issued before 1971 were estimated by multiplying the total number of candidates by the percentage of people

who met state score requirements in that year.2. Before 1998, data for the Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, and Palau were reported under the category Micronesia.3. Alberta initiated testing in 1981.4. Nunavut initiated testing in 2003.5. Ontario initiated testing in 1996.6. Quebec initiated testing in 2001.

* The number of GED Test passers in Puerto Rico was incomplete for 2005 and was understated.

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APPENDIX yFormulas for Table statistics

The following formulas were used to calculate the statistics for the tables presented in this report. Specific formulas are presented here

under their respective table and appendix titles for easy reference. The same formulas were used to cal-culate jurisdiction statistics and jurisdictional group statistics. Therefore, jurisdictional group statistics are based on all records in that group; they are not aver-ages of all the jurisdictions in a group.

TABLE 2: TARGET POPULATION AND GED TEST CANDIDATES WHO TESTED, COMPLETED, AND PASSED: 2009

Target Population Tested (%) was calculated by dividing the number of GED Test candidates who took at least one content area by the total population of adults without a high school credential, then mul-tiplying that number by 100.

Completion Rate (%) was calculated by dividing the number of GED Test completers by the number of candidates who took at least one content area, then multiplying that number by 100.

Target Population Completed (%) was calculated by dividing the number of GED Test completers by the total population of adults without a high school cre-dential, then multiplying that number by 100.

Pass Rate (%) was calculated by dividing the num-ber of GED Test passers by the number of GED completers, then multiplying that number by 100.

Target Population Passed (%) was calculated by dividing the number of GED Test passers by the total population of adults without a high school creden-tial, then multiplying that number by 100.

TABLE 3: TARGET POPULATION AND FIRST-TIME GED TEST CANDIDATES WHO TESTED, COMPLETED, AND PASSED: 2009 COHORT

Target Population First-Time Candidates (%) was calculated by dividing the number of first-time GED Test candidates who took at least one content area for the first time in 2009 and who had never tested in previous years, by the total population of adults without a high school credential, then multiplying that number by 100.

Completers Among First-Time Candidates Completion Rate (%) was calculated by dividing the number of first-time GED Test candidates who com-pleted the GED Test by the number of first-time can-didates, then multiplying that number by 100.

Completers Among First-Time Candidates Target Population (%) was calculated by dividing the num-ber of first-time GED Test candidates who completed the GED Test by the total population of adults with-out a high school credential, then multiplying that number by 100.

Passers Among First-Time Candidates Pass Rate (%) was calculated by dividing the number of first-time GED Test candidates who completed and passed the GED Test by the number of GED completers, then multiplying that number by 100.

Passers Among First-Time Candidates Target Population (%) was calculated by dividing the num-ber of first-time GED Test candidates who completed and passed the GED Test by the total population of adults without a high school credential, then multi-plying that number by 100.

APPENDIX B: PERCENTAGE OF GED TEST CANDIDATES, By AGE GROUP AND MEAN AGE: 2009

Candidates with Known Age (%) was calculated by dividing the number of GED Test candidates with known age by the total number of candidates, then multiplying that number by 100.

Percentage in each age group was calculated by dividing the total number of GED Test candidates in that age group by the total number of candidates with known age, then multiplying that number by 100.

The mean age was calculated by averaging the ages of all candidates with known date of birth.

The standard deviation was calculated using the formula

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APPENDIX C: PERCENTAGE OF GED TEST CANDIDATES, By GENDER: 2009

Candidates with Known Gender (%) was calculated by dividing the number of GED Test candidates with known gender by the total number of candidates, then multiplying by 100.

Percentage in each gender group was calculated by dividing the total number of GED Test candidates in that gender group by the total number of candidates for whom gender was known, then multiplying that number by 100.

APPENDIX D: PERCENTAGE OF GED TEST CANDIDATES, By ETHNICITy: 2009

Candidates with Known Ethnicity (%) was calcu-lated by dividing the number of GED Test candidates with known ethnicity by the total number of candi-dates, then multiplying by 100.

Percentage of each ethnicity group was calculated by dividing the total number of GED Test candidates in that ethnicity group by the total number of candi-dates for whom ethnicity was known, then multiply-ing that number by 100.

APPENDIX E: PERCENTAGE OF GED TEST CANDIDATES, By HIGHEST GRADE COMPLETED AND MODE HIGHEST GRADE COMPLETED: 2009

Candidates with Known Highest Grade Completed (%) was calculated by dividing the number of GED Test candidates with known highest grade completed by the total number of candidates, then multiplying by 100.

Percentage in each grade level was calculated by dividing the total number of GED Test candidates in that grade level by the total number of passers for whom highest grade completed was known, then multiplying that number by 100.

The mode for highest grade completed was the grade level most frequently reported by all candidates.

APPENDIX F: PERCENTAGE OF GED TEST CANDIDATES, By yEARS OUT OF SCHOOL AND MEAN yEARS OUT: 2009

Candidates with Known Years Out of School (%) was calculated by dividing the number of GED Test candidates with known years out of school by the total number of candidates, then multiplying by 100.

Number of Years Out of School was calculated by subtracting the year reported as the last year of school from the current report year.

Percentage in each Years Out of School group was calculated by dividing the total number of GED Test candidates in that group by the total number of can-didates for whom years out of school was known, then multiplying that number by 100.

The mean for years out of school was calculated by averaging known years of school for all candidates.

The standard deviation was calculated using the formula

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where equals the candidate years out of school, equals the mean candidate years out of school, and equals the number of candidates with known years out of school.

APPENDICES G1 AND G2: PERCENTAGE OF CANDIDATES REPORTING VARIOUS REASONS FOR TAKING THE GED TEST: 2009

Candidates Indicating Reasons for Testing (%) was calculated by dividing the number of GED Test can-didates with at least one known reason for testing by the total number of candidates, then multiplying by 100.

Percentage of GED Test candidates giving each rea-son for testing was calculated by dividing the total number of candidates who indicated that reason for testing by the total number of candidates for whom reasons for testing was known, then multiplying that number by 100.

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APPENDICES J1 AND J2: STANDARD SCORE STATISTICS FOR ALL GED TEST CANDIDATES: 2009

The median standard score was calculated by order-ing all scores and identifying the score that has an equal number of scores above and below it.

The mean standard score was calculated by averag-ing the test scores.

The standard deviation was calculated using the formula

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where equals the test standard score, equals the mean standard score, and equals the number of standard scores.

Met Minimum Score Requirements (%) for each content area was calculated by dividing the number of candidates who met the jurisdictional minimum standard score by the total number of candidates, then multiplying that number by 100.

APPENDIX K: GED TEST CANDIDATE PARTICIPATION, By NUMBER TESTED, PERCENTAGE WHO COMPLETED THE GED TEST, AND PERCENTAGE WHO PASSED: CHANGES FROM 2008 TO 2009

Tested Percent Change 2008–09 (%) was calculated by subtracting the number of candidates in 2008 from the number of candidates in 2009, then dividing the difference by the 2008 figure and multiplying by 100. A negative number signals a decrease from the previous year.

Completed Percentage Point Change 2008–09 (%) was calculated by subtracting the percentage of com-pleters in 2008 from the percentage of completers in 2009. A negative number signals a decrease from the previous year.

Passed Percentage Point Change 2008–09 (%) is calculated by subtracting the percentage of passers in 2008 from the percentage of passers in 2009. A negative number signals a decrease from the previ-ous year.

APPENDIX L: PERCENTAGE OF GED TEST PASSERS, By AGE GROUP AND MEAN AGE: 2009

Passers with Known Age (%) was calculated by dividing the number of GED Test passers with known age by the total number of passers, then mul-tiplying by 100.

Percentage in each age group was calculated by dividing the total number of GED Test passers in that age group by the total number of passers for whom age was calculated using their date of birth, then multiplying that number by 100.

The mean age was calculated by averaging the ages of all GED Test passers with known date of birth.

The standard deviation was calculated using the formula

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where equals the GED Test passer age, equals the mean GED Test passer age, and equals the number of GED Test passers with known age.

APPENDIX M: PERCENTAGE OF GED TEST PASSERS, By GENDER: 2009

Passers with Known Gender (%) was calculated by dividing the number of GED Test passers with known gender by the total number of passers, then multiplying by 100.

Percentage in each gender group was calculated by dividing the total number of GED Test passers in that gender group by the total number of passers for whom gender was known, then multiplying that number by 100.

APPENDIX N: PERCENTAGE OF GED TEST PASSERS, By ETHNICITy: 2009

Passers with Known Ethnicity (%) was calculated by dividing the number of GED Test passers with known ethnicity by the total number of passers, then multiplying by 100.

Percentage in each ethnicity group was calculated by dividing the total number of GED Test passers in that ethnicity group by the total number of passers for whom ethnicity was known, then multiplying that number by 100.

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APPENDIX O: PERCENTAGE OF GED TEST PASSERS, By HIGHEST GRADE COMPLETED AND MODE HIGHEST GRADE COMPLETED: 2009

Passers with Known Highest Grade Completed (%) was calculated by dividing the number of GED Test passers with known highest grade completed by the total number of passers, then multiplying by 100.

Percentage in each grade level was calculated by dividing the total number of GED Test passers in that grade level by the total number of passers for whom highest grade completed was known, then multiply-ing that number by 100.

The Mode Highest Grade Completed was the grade level most frequently reported by all GED Test passers.

APPENDIX P: PERCENTAGE OF GED TEST PASSERS, By yEARS OUT OF SCHOOL AND MEAN yEARS OUT: 2009

Passers with Known Years Out of School (%) was calculated by dividing the number of GED Test pass-ers with known years out of school by the total number of passers, then multiplying by 100.

Years Out of School was calculated by subtracting the year reported as the last year of school attended from the current report year.

Percentage in each Years Out of School group was calculated by dividing the total number of GED Test passers in that group by the total number of GED Test passers for whom years out of school was known, then multiplying that number by 100.

The mean for years out of school was calculated by averaging known years of school for all GED Test passers.

The standard deviation was calculated using the formula

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where equals the GED Test passer years out of school, equals the mean GED Test passer years out of school, and equals the number of GED Test passers with known years out of school.

APPENDICES Q1 AND Q2: PERCENTAGE OF PASSERS REPORTING VARIOUS REASONS FOR TAKING THE GED TEST: 2009

Passers Indicating Reasons for Testing (%) was cal-culated by dividing the number of GED Test passers with at least one known reason for testing by the total number of passers, then multiplying by 100.

Percentage of GED Test passers giving each reason for testing was calculated by dividing the total num-ber of passers who indicated that reason for testing by the total number of passers for whom reasons for testing was known, then multiplying that number by 100.

APPENDICES R1 AND R2: STANDARD SCORE STATISTICS FOR ALL GED TEST PASSERS: 2009

The median standard score was calculated by order-ing all scores and identifying the score that has an equal number of scores above and below it.

The mean standard score was calculated by averag-ing the test scores.

The standard deviation was calculated using the formula

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where equals the test standard score, equals the mean standard score, and equals the number of standard scores.

APPENDIX S: GED TEST PASS RATES, By AGE GROUP: 2009

Overall Pass Rate (%) was calculated by dividing the total number of GED Test passers by the number of GED Test completers, then multiplying that number by 100. This rate is the same as reported in Table 2.

Pass Rates by Age Group (%) were calculated by dividing the number of GED Test passers in each individual age group by the corresponding number of GED Test completers of the same age group, then multiplying that number by 100.

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APPENDIX T: GED TEST PASS RATES, By GENDER: 2009

Overall Pass Rate (%) was calculated by dividing the total number of GED Test passers by the number of GED Test completers, then multiplying that number by 100. This rate is the same as reported in Table 2.

Pass Rates by Gender (%) were calculated by divid-ing the number of GED Test passers in each gender group by the corresponding number of GED Test completers of the same gender group, then multiply-ing that number by 100.

APPENDIX U: GED TEST PASS RATES, By ETHNICITy: 2009

Overall Pass Rate (%) was calculated by dividing the total number of GED Test passers by the number of GED Test completers, then multiplying that number by 100. This rate is the same as reported in Table 2.

Pass Rates by Ethnicity (%) were calculated by dividing the number of GED Test passers in each ethnicity group by the corresponding number of GED Test completers of the same ethnicity group, then multiplying that number by 100.

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